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Agree with Trevor D, I'm slowly stripping the turf off my 'new' half plot to make beds and paths, and it is rotting down nicely where we have used it to fill two large ditches. However, in the past few weeks the stripped areas are partly covered in sitting water!

Just have to be patient and let it dry out enough to dig and mulch heavily with mushroom compost. Once that is done, I'm going to use weed suppressing membrane over the path areas, black plastic over where the potatoes are going to go to pre-warm the soil, and them cover the other beds before planting up in March to help suppress the weeds that will try and grow (the whole plot is a mass of dandelion plants!)

Hi nats and welcome, all  the correct advise has been given, with the soil this wet digging will be a nightmare, as Trevor said skim off an inch of the turf and stack upside down, cover and mulch.  ;D ;D ;D