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great weekend at the lottie!
Fingle....:
Our soil is soggy clay at the moment .. im gonna end up like Conan !!
Tenuse:
I'm absolutely frantic to get digging as my fruit is arriving this week!
But the soil is soggy and heavy and squelchy and I know I will damage it if I dig it. :(
I keep going up and looking hopefully at it with a fork but then putting the fork away again.
Oh well took out my frustrations by destroying our "shed" hehehehe!
Ten x
Fingle....:
why does digging when wet damage it ????
Derekthefox:
I have always believed that it is not the digging that does the damage, but the standing on the wet soil. The result is that the soil becomes heavily compacted, almost slurry like, and the absence of air makes it sour. i would appreciate one of our more learned members giving their opinion.
Tenuse:
Yes sorry it is the compaction that affects the soil structure, not the fact that it is wet. Clay particles stick together really well and compaction squeezes out the air that roots need.
Also it will then dry rock hard and be impossible to dig!
Plus, I don't much fancy hand-furlking out bits of bindweed and horsetail roots when it is like a little pond.
Ten x
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