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We moved here in early 2011 and out back garden was literally a jungle. It is around 35m x 10m and slightly sloping maybe 20 degrees towards the house the so a decent size but it had shrubs around 3m deep on each side. with ivy strung out between each banking of shrubs.

As the fences apparently hadn't seen paint/woodstain in years and as we have a young family my husband spend a weekend over summer 2011 with some friends de-shrubbing and de-ivying the garden plus painting fences etc. the difference was amazing, we reseeded the cleared areas and soon we had a nice garden for our family.
During autumn 2011 I noticed that the area of the garden near the top beside two plastic storage sheds seemed to be almost boggy, I blamed the removal of the shrubs initially then my husband said he thought because the sheds were placed directly on soil rather than a base they may be inhibiting drainage so a shed base was dug/created gravel, sharp sand then slabs and then it was winter and the ground was frozen rock solid.

2012 arrived and was quite wet, it became obvious that there was some issues with drainage within the garden.
Several weekends of forking the lawn then the addition to some side beds with fruit trees has helped but I still have a problem area around the top of the garden, top of the slope around where my office is. I spoke to one of my neighbours and he says the owners before the people we bought from have 5 boys who played football on the garden all year round and it looked like a mudbath most of the time. I feel the problem is probably soil compaction and right enough his garden level at the point of out shared fence is around 4 inches higher than mine.

With all the rain we have had recently the top of the garden is a quagmire and as it is so messy walking through it plus the risk of making it worse I have moved my office into the dining room but it really cannot be a long term solution. I have to sort out this garden problem.

The real question is how? Do we need to let the garden dry out first?

 

Its interesting even with the slope its the top of the garden which is boggy. I would suggest to put some top soil, that often helps. And a path to make your way to office. This will give you easy access to your office.


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