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Claggy when too wet
sets to concrete in the dry
blooming Bristol clay.
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by Scooj
Digging my allotment is a trial. The soil is clay based and no matter how much organic matter I chuck in, the clay seems to rise to the surface. When it is wet it is impossible to dig, everything sticks to everything. When it is dry, it becomes so hard that pushing a spade into it causes a jarring sensation and breaking the lumps is serious hard labour. Perhaps I should move.
Natural adventures 
A friend of mine had similar difficulty with her allotment but definitely improved things over time with the help of working a few bales of straw into it slowly but surely as well as a lot of other things but she puts the main improvement down to the straw
Certainly a cheap thing to try . . .
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