Im building a rockery ...Our soil is like clay. Which compost should i use to
help breAk it up.T here are so many different sorts.!

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Im building a rockery ...Our soil is like clay. Which compost should i use to
help breAk it up.T here are so many different sorts.!

What we do is dig out the clay completely so that we have pockets. We
then fill these pockets with a mix of seivedsoil/pottingcompost/grit/san
d/ericaceouscompost in varying proportions depending upon which plant we
are going to plant in a particular pocket. Initially we tried mixing
sand and compost with the clay but it never made a free draining enough
mix for most of the alpine type plants that 'go' in a rockery
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Im building a rockery ...Our soil is like clay. Which compost should i use
to
help breAk it up.T here are so many different sorts.!

Dig it out and replace it.
If you use a sharp sand and compost mix it will drain quite well and suit a
whole range of rockery plants.
I prepared just such a rockery for the missus - she had never touched the
soil before, but after just a year she has made it look stunning with a
variety of plants "knitted" together and flowering through the seasons.