In message .com,
Martin Brown writes
If the clay isn't solid I would be tempted to grow the crops that will
tolerate such conditions until the soil improves rather than spend a
lit of time and money on it up front. That has always been my solution.
YMMV.

Thanks, Martin, I have passed the message on! I expect it will be
greeted with delight as the problem of the sand was becoming quite a
bugbear!


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Klara, Gatwick basin