Soil/ peat improvers
Small chilli Offline
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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    Blush . Which is very embarrassing. As it’s probably the most important part. 
Advice please.
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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?
Has Anyone Seen the Plot?

Hautes-Pyrénées (65), France
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(14-04-2022, 09:41 AM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: 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.
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(14-04-2022, 10:35 AM)Small chilli Wrote:
(14-04-2022, 09:41 AM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: 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?”
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(14-04-2022, 11:17 AM)Farendwoman Wrote:
(14-04-2022, 10:35 AM)Small chilli Wrote:
(14-04-2022, 09:41 AM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: 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  Big Grin that did make me chuckle. Geographically ( mostly   Wink )
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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.
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(14-04-2022, 11:59 AM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: 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  Big Grin . It would look exactly the same as the rest of the surrounding area. And I’d look like a right lazy ……..   Big Grin . 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.
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Vinny Offline
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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. Cool

Here are some nice plants to start you off! Big Grin

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(14-04-2022, 12:19 PM)Small chilli Wrote:
(14-04-2022, 11:59 AM)PyreneesPlot Wrote: 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  Big Grin . It would look exactly the same as the rest of the surrounding area. And I’d look like a right lazy ……..   Big Grin . 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!)
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Would it help the rest of the garden if you dug a pond? If so, I'd do that Smile
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