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Hello, my Name is Oliver Buckle, I am in my seventies, retired, and I live in a small village in East Sussex. We moved here about eighteen months ago. The previous owner 'maintained' the garden by getting someone in twice a year to cut the hedges and more frequently to mow the lawns, and the garden is basically solid Weald clay. When it rains there are areas that flood. Since being here I have moved huge heaps of garden rubbish and lawn mowings that had been dumped at the end for years and created one quite reasonable veg bed and another flower bed and I have discovered that some areas seem to have darker soil. The next door neighbour told me that the people who lived here twenty years ago had a huge container of mushroom compost delivered and grew veg, I think this is what I am discovering. The lawn nearest the house was almost entirely moss, much raking later I have some bald patches, but look forward to improving it this summer.
It sounds awful, but there are some very nice spots, an ancient apple tree surrounded by snowdrops at the base, a mature oak tree at the end of the garden that, now I have got rid of the bramble, has cyclamen and daffodils growing under it, and I am gradually improving and creating new growing places, when the weather allows. It has been covered in snow for the last week or so.
It sounds awful, but there are some very nice spots, an ancient apple tree surrounded by snowdrops at the base, a mature oak tree at the end of the garden that, now I have got rid of the bramble, has cyclamen and daffodils growing under it, and I am gradually improving and creating new growing places, when the weather allows. It has been covered in snow for the last week or so.