hi all, some areas of my local woods are muddy wastelands after a water company had to lay pipes or something and in the process stripped everything away for a wide strip through the woods, a couple of years later and it still looks like a butter iced chocolate cake – no top soil left? not sure.

anyways, i wonder if there is an established way to help mud turn back into soil and stop it being so darn pastey, like a green manure crop which will grow in anything, and slowly return some nutrients and organic matter so other stuff can move in?

however i don’t want to introduce some mentalist plant which will take over the rest of the woods though, and ideally i would sprinkle the seed ( sounds wrong that!) on the edges of the worst of the trails too, to encourage some quick growing back and stop people treating them like dual carriageways.

anybody tried this? its going to be the right time of year soon to try it.