On Mon, 31 May 2004 11:42:35 -0400, "The Data Rat"
wrote:

Any worms out there than you noticed in that clay ground? It sounds
like there is no drainage, and worms would create lots of holes for
water to percolate down into the ground, but a lot of places have
nothing for the worms to eat.. no organic matter, and it sounds like
with no leaves and sounds like it must be bare or close to it ..are
there any plants that develop tap roots? something needs to open that
soil up for it to drain properly. Soil acid? before you put more top
soil on it. If you had room to bring in all that soil, was it a new
construction with the icky clay subsoil left after they scraped off
the top soil? Otherwise, how did you have room to add truckloads of
more soil?

Yes as others asked, need to have some idea of what part of the
country you're in. No, don't need your address ;-)

Janice

My yard smells. It is heavy clay and when it rains, it holds moisture and
turns green with either algae or mold. (I have had 2 loads of top soil
brought in, tilled it and amended it per the dept. of agriculture. It
always started out great, then turns back to clay. Overall, I have spent
about 3K on the back yard)

Oddly enough, where it smells the worst is in an area that gets full sun to
bright shade all day. The yard is graded correctly, it slopes down, away
from the house. I do not have any trees in the yard, but there are very
tall pine tree's behind the yard.

My question is what can I put on it to neutralize the smell?
I am getting ready to deck the remaining yard in so I don't care if it kills
the grass, (what little there is). I also have 2 dogs and the smell of
urine stays forever. Baking soda doesn't work and I have actually tried
Febreeze. It's just a rank smell.

Thanks!

Suzi