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Our soil is a clay one (doesn't drain at all well and is quite
clumpey) I have broken up a patch. Would this patch benefit from worms
or do I have to do the whole mixing in sand bit? How much sand (patch is
5m x 60cm) and does anyone know of a worm supplier in Edinburgh?
May also have access to horse manure (well rotted).


You will open it up much better if you add lots of sharp grit, all the
compost (bought and home-made) that you can muster and, by all means, good
horse muck if you can get it. Bear in mind that this can sometimes be
riddled with weeds.

Worms will come to you. Indeed, they may already be there in the lower
layers of the soil. My worms often lurk deep in the soil during drought
conditions - even in winter.

Spider



Apropos this, does anyone know if the 'weedkiller in manure' problem has
now been solved or overcome in any way? I don't recall reading of an
outcome to that particular problem.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

No its on going and is especially bad in horse manure as this weed killer
deals with ragwort in pasture and is used a lot for fields that will be
both silage and hay/haylage, seems its up to all the people in the chain
to be aware that the resulting dung is no good for garden fertilizer (all
though apparently ok to spead on fields)Because the container has clear
warnings on it warning of the side effects goverment/eu will not act to
withdraw it
--
Charlie Pridham, Gardening in Cornwall
www.roselandhouse.co.uk
Holders of national collections of Clematis viticella cultivars and
Lapageria rosea