Wet ground.

[Darwin.]

My polytunnel is soaking wet, I'm draining the garden below it to try pulling some of the water away from it but is there anything I can add to the soil in it to dry it out a little? I thought sawdust would do it but the garden centre bloke told me it'll leave my soil even wetter.

It was full of rushes when I opened it a few weeks ago to start getting it ready for this year, it's torture getting rid of them and the rest of the weeds so I'd like to avoid a repeat of this next year.

[Aberdeenplotter]

I'm interested to hear you talk about ground below so that is a great advantage if the ground slopes away from your tunnel. If you can take out a trench, and make sure it can drain away freely at the lowest point that will be a great start. I'd also be inclined to dig a trench across the ground outside the top end of your tunnel, at least a foot deep,more if it is easy digging, and then a trench along the length of your tunnel, tieing the top trench in to that and then tieing that second trench in to the trench at the foot. A piece of perforated land drainage piping and backfilled with gravel should sort things

[Darwin.]

I'll be putting a drain either side of it anyway and straight down from the bottom of it to the lowest corner. I mentioned on another thread that I'm putting in a pond so I'll be draining it into that.

[Aberdeenplotter]

Wish I'd known we had a resident expert on drainage before I opened my gob. I stand by the advice I did give mind. It's exactly what I would have done if it was my own plot.