Soil/ peat improvers

Ok boys & girls it time to educate the stupid ( that would be me ). 
What do I dig into my very easily waterlogged peat bog to make it useable? 
How to look after the brown / black stuff is one part of gardening I’ve never really been able to get my head round     . Which is very embarrassing. As it’s probably the most important part. 
Advice please.

Can you use raised beds or hugelkultur planting to raise the plants above the saturated layer? The roots would still be able to penetrate down but they'd avoid getting permanently waterlogged.
It looks like a really interesting conundrum! What do your neighbours do?

Can you use raised beds or hugelkultur planting to raise the plants above the saturated layer? The roots would still be able to penetrate down but they'd avoid getting permanently waterlogged.
It looks like a really interesting conundrum! What do your neighbours do?

I’ll be doing the raised beds for the veggie garden. But for the rest of the garden……….? Neighbours one side don’t garden , it’s a holiday let . Neighbours the other side are just out of the bog but they still struggle.

Can you use raised beds or hugelkultur planting to raise the plants above the saturated layer? The roots would still be able to penetrate down but they'd avoid getting permanently waterlogged.
It looks like a really interesting conundrum! What do your neighbours do?

I’ll be doing the raised beds for the veggie garden. But for the rest of the garden……….? Neighbours one side don’t garden , it’s a holiday let . Neighbours the other side are just out of the bog but they still struggle.

“Just out of the bog” made me smile. 
did you mean “just out of the Stone Age, just out of the loo - or geographically speaking?”

Can you use raised beds or hugelkultur planting to raise the plants above the saturated layer? The roots would still be able to penetrate down but they'd avoid getting permanently waterlogged.
It looks like a really interesting conundrum! What do your neighbours do?

I’ll be doing the raised beds for the veggie garden. But for the rest of the garden……….? Neighbours one side don’t garden , it’s a holiday let . Neighbours the other side are just out of the bog but they still struggle.

“Just out of the bog” made me smile. 
did you mean “just out of the Stone Age, just out of the loo - or geographically speaking?”

Ha ha   that did make me chuckle. Geographically ( mostly    )

Can you embrace the bog and do more of what nature does best in your climate/conditions? Carnivorous plants? Although I admit, although that would be great for nature as peat bogs continue to disappear, it doesn't sound like very exciting gardening.

Can you embrace the bog and do more of what nature does best in your climate/conditions? Carnivorous plants? Although I admit, although that would be great for nature as peat bogs continue to disappear, it doesn't sound like very exciting gardening.

That would be very easy, I’d just leave it as it is   . It would look exactly the same as the rest of the surrounding area. And I’d look like a right lazy ……..    . mostly just rushes & grasses . Most of the carnivores plants seem to stick close to running water. Toes in the bog but sat next to burns.

I would try and get a good book on bog gardening? I think there would prbably be a lot more would grow there as well as rushes and grasses. I have seen some beautiful pond surrounds where they try and make a bog garden.

Here are some nice plants to start you off!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/252278814395?...MOEALw_wcB

Can you embrace the bog and do more of what nature does best in your climate/conditions? Carnivorous plants? Although I admit, although that would be great for nature as peat bogs continue to disappear, it doesn't sound like very exciting gardening.

That would be very easy, I’d just leave it as it is   . It would look exactly the same as the rest of the surrounding area. And I’d look like a right lazy ……..    . mostly just rushes & grasses . Most of the carnivores plants seem to stick close to running water. Toes in the bog but sat next to burns.

You’d look like a right lazy …… that was just out of the bog!
(sorry - couldn’t resist that. You have made my day!)

Would it help the rest of the garden if you dug a pond? If so, I'd do that