Half my garden is effectively modelling clay consistancy, and I have never been able to grow anything (inc weeds!) due to the location of my house, a retaining wall and very limited sunlight.
As a result I decided to install decking over the entire area, so far I have laid all the joists and am just finishing off the noggins & a few odds and ends before I lay the boards. My current issue is this drought(HAH!) we are having is turning the whole garden into a total quagmire. Everything is soaking and a drainage trench i dug between some posts (roughly 2 foot deep by 1 foot wide by 4 feet long) is full to the top of water - this is before I go ahead and fill it with gravel/rubble!
Now this drainage trench is about 1 foot away from one of these big concrete slab manhole/sewer access points for the house and I am sorely tempted to dig out the last foot of clay and then put a few cheeky holes through the concrete wall of it and fill the whole thing up with rubble & gravel.
As a result I decided to install decking over the entire area, so far I have laid all the joists and am just finishing off the noggins & a few odds and ends before I lay the boards. My current issue is this drought(HAH!) we are having is turning the whole garden into a total quagmire. Everything is soaking and a drainage trench i dug between some posts (roughly 2 foot deep by 1 foot wide by 4 feet long) is full to the top of water - this is before I go ahead and fill it with gravel/rubble!
Now this drainage trench is about 1 foot away from one of these big concrete slab manhole/sewer access points for the house and I am sorely tempted to dig out the last foot of clay and then put a few cheeky holes through the concrete wall of it and fill the whole thing up with rubble & gravel.
