Seminar on Clay Soil in the Home Garden
Soil Structure Does Not Equal Soil Fertility
The soil structure is the basic underlying mineral component of our soil, the parent material that includes ground up minerals - sand, silt and clay.
Organic matter is also a minor part (in terms of percentage of material) of the soil structure and we’ll talk about this in more depth later.
What's In This Course About Clay Soil
We're going to be covering a wide range of practial how-to garden on clay soil types of content. From understanding our soils, to testing our soils and fixing the problems so we can garden there. Or finding ways to work around the specifics of our own garden conditions.
Here are the main topics under discussion
Click on the links below to see the information and add your questions and comments.
Planting in Clay Soil
Planting in clay soils is one of those oft-debated horticultural practices.
Essentially, research showed that trees and shrubs planted in heavy clay …
Perennials for Clay Soils
I've written about many of these plants over at the perennials site . In fact, this list is lifted almost word for word from that page. :-) (Hey, no …
Gypsum and Clay Soils
Let's look at the science of using gypsum to improve clay soils rather than the popular garden mythology. This demands a bit of attention but the …
Best Trees and Shrubs for Clay
Here are some of the better woody tree and shrub plants for heavy clay soils. You can experiment with other plants on soils with lighter amounts of clay …
Options for Dealing with Clay Soils
When it comes to clay soil gardening and actually getting something done about it, you have several options. These are solutions recommended throughout …
How To Measure Your Clay Soil Content
How To Measure Your Clay Soil Content
As always, this is a test built for the extremely low-budget gardener. It isn’t hard, it’s not rocket-science …
Options for Gardening on Clay Soils
Let’s look at the basic methods we have for gardening on clay soils - making them ready to garden on in productive and easy ways.
Remember that all …
Clay Soil
Clay Soil
When we're talking about improving our clay soil gardens, there's one thing we have to understand first. And that is how soils are structured. …
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