End of puncture campaign

This to record the end of the puncture campaign for this winter, after perhaps four or five sessions. The gardening committee ruled yesterday that it was too late to do any more this year and that work was to stop forthwith.

See reference 1 for the start of the campaign.

The plan is to do the two chunks at the back of the back lawn over the next two winters, a total of five in all, and then to start at the beginning again. Depending that is, on how things look then. Perhaps the punctured lawn will, by then, be perfect.

Worth noting that while the top soil is a heavy clay, with brown clay not far below, the chalk is not far below that, maybe a foot from the surface. I have never hit chalk in the garden, but the people who dig holes in the road certainly do. So here on the edge of the downs, the clay, heavy though it is, is just a smear on the surface of the chalk. But a smear which wrecks the ground for many gardening purposes.

It would be interesting to know, given the low hills hereabouts, how much the depth to the chalk varies. It ought to be easy enough to design a chalk detecting spike, so a project for some keen geography teacher hereabouts, something to vary the land usage or street furniture surveys  they usually dish out to their GCSE students. Or whatever they call GCSE these days. Perhaps a letter to Glynn is indicated.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/2015-2016-puncture-campaign.html.