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PS: The soil round here seem to retain the water for ages. I pinched
some of the farmers field for a couple of pot plants and they never
seem to dry!! Whereas the composty stuff I had before needed watering
every few days. It's not clay.
If you're anywhere near the Wash (as we are) the Fens are a drained
flood plain, so it's mainly silt. Although there's still a lot of
variation in quality of soil field by field - my farmer neighbour
pointed out two adjacent fields and commented there were three gears
difference in ploughing them.
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Nick (=----)