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Produce => Under Glass => Topic started by: davyw1 on November 17, 2012, 17:20:09

Title: Dont You Just Wish
Post by: davyw1 on November 17, 2012, 17:20:09
That you never started, changing the soil in one of the GH got down a foot and then solid clay

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Title: Re: Dont You Just Wish
Post by: pumkinlover on November 17, 2012, 21:08:17
I find digging greenhouse soil out  really difficult, it is the sort of twisting and turning to empty the spade without demolishing the glass! demoralising to then find clay :BangHead:
Title: Re: Dont You Just Wish
Post by: davee52uk on November 18, 2012, 17:09:21
I found some asbestos sheets about a foot down so leave them and just add most compost/manure each year
Title: Re: Dont You Just Wish
Post by: davyw1 on November 18, 2012, 20:06:19
Couple of days graft soil in shelving up and ready to go

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Title: Re: Dont You Just Wish
Post by: davyw1 on November 21, 2012, 22:04:06
Started in the seconed GH only 8" of soil in that one SHHH*t

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Title: Re: Dont You Just Wish
Post by: carolinej on November 22, 2012, 10:47:39
1st greenhouse looking good :blob7:
Title: Re: Dont You Just Wish
Post by: davyw1 on November 22, 2012, 15:11:09
Than you i hope i am when i get the seconed finnished
Title: Re: Dont You Just Wish
Post by: grawrc on November 22, 2012, 17:40:19
That's quite a transformation in greenhouse 1. Beautiful dark, crumbly soil with a fine tilth. It just makes me want to lift up a big handful and smell it! Good job well done Davy!
Title: Re: Dont You Just Wish
Post by: Garden Manager on December 07, 2012, 15:20:43
Can't you build up the soil level or even put in a raised bed to give yourself more soil depth? Would be easier to change when the time came. I don't have an open soil border; in my GH, couldn't be doing with it after trying it the 1st year. Used pots or grow bags for a while until I found Marshalls' Grobeds, which are sort of a cross between raised beds and bags that just sit on any flat surface. Get great results from them.

Hope this helps.