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Title: Water Logging
Post by: thenovice on October 27, 2008, 16:54:05
Any advice on how to stop an allotment water logging?
Title: Re: Water Logging
Post by: Tee Gee on October 27, 2008, 16:57:53
Difficult one to answer that given the information we have to work on.

Any chance of a few pictures from different angles, soil type and is it on a hill/slope/hollow?
Title: Re: Water Logging
Post by: manicscousers on October 27, 2008, 17:34:20
hiya, thenovice, welcome to the site  ;D
our allotment gets waterlogged, as in paddling through water on the paths, it went over my ankle boots yesterday..we've sort of solved it by raising beds above it, that and pulling spuds as soon as they're a decent size, if we're getting lots of rain  ::) ;D
Title: Re: Water Logging
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on October 27, 2008, 21:36:05
I'm right by a stream, and I get waterlogged occasionally; last year some of my rhubarb drowned, and that's a plant that likes the damp. It is only an occasional problem for me, as the plot's well drained. Some of the lower-lying plots are waterlogged more regularly, and if I had one of those I'd build raised beds.

A lot depends on the situation. It might be due to water running across your plot, or clay soil, or all sorts of things.