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Hi and welcome to the forum. I can't help with tips re lining a pond with clay though! have you lined the rest of it with clay? There's a thread here somewhere about creating ponds with clay v. liner. I'll see if I can't find it - not sure whether it will help or not. Thanks for the reply. I haven'...

I am creating a shady spot on my allotment where my bench will go. It was in full sun and so did not get used last year. This year I intend to make a sort of covered arch around it for shade. I thought of running a load of runner beans on a sort of half sunken wigwam above the bench. I have now tho...

I've planted a lot of seeds in John Innes Seed Compost this year. I though i'd try and give them a head start. Every time i water, half the compost gets washed away, and i#m sure its taken a load of chilli seeds with it. How do i stop this? I'm not buying the stupid compost again. I water with a wa...

Hi all. Husband thinks it's ok to put weeds into the composter (fine so far...) but he is all for putting in their roots aswell which I'm worried will encourage them to grow! He's put some ashy stuff in to help everything to break down and he reckons that'll be enough to break it all down but I'm w...

I have just dug ( with an excavator ) a really big pond, it is holding the water, but i would the water to come a little further up the bank, i am thinking of lining it with clay ( spread with the excavator ) any tips please?

Or try green manure like phacelia and buckwheat - at least you'd be attracting masses of beneficial insects that way! And it looks pretty, too. A car should not contaminate the soil for very long as any fluids such as oil ect will reach the water table and eventually get washed away, use lots of fa...