the compost is the usual really loose stuff that you buy these days, but having a poke around in it, it does seem to have a lot of white feathery roots. I do like to try out any innovative ideas that I have, with the downside, that they can be dreadful ideas sometimes. I am now following the convent...

A second growth of leaves has now appeared. I suspect that you are right about the problem being with waterlogging. My garden was a jungle full of huge ash trees, these were chopped down and burnt, and I got a bare canvas, albeit one of very heavy clay, with little organic matter in it. Fortunately ...

I would like some advice on my Damson Tree. I bought it as a sapling a couple of years ago, and it has grown a little each year. It seems to have a hearty set of blossoms in spring, these then fall off, to be followed by little green berries. It then really seems to die back with even the leaves shr...

if it ever dries out, I'll try a run of mastic,

hopefully the condensation is not really flooding the plant trays, and it is probably unlikely to be much of a problem in the near future

cheers

Peter

I've got a cheap-ish aluminium cold frame. Generally pretty happy with it, but... it is made of glass, with each top window being made of two panes, so there is an aluminium runner across the middle of each top window. This means that heavy rain tends to seep through the runner and drip onto the pla...

I had a pretty similar problem when I bought this house, two 45/360 slopes over heavy clay. Coming at this from a vaguely permaculture and experimental angle, I rejected terracing at you would be looking at walls all the time rather than plants. I'm maintaing both banks so they don't get any more we...