Hi every body.
The soil of my garden is strongly Clay and plastic.
I tried to plant many vegetables and result in complete failure. Please I
need help.
Thanks.
saref

On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 20:40:25 +1100, "Farea Saref"
wrote:

Hi every body.
The soil of my garden is strongly Clay and plastic.
I tried to plant many vegetables and result in complete failure. Please I
need help.
Thanks.
saref



The cheapest way to improve heavy clay soil is to add gypsum to it at
the rate of 1 kilo per 1 square metre. If you live in an area where
you're still having good rains at the moment, you don't even have to
dig the gypsum into the ground. You can just lay it on top and let the
rain do the work. If not, you'll need to dig it in. Adding compost or
animal manure along with the gypsum will help even more. Gypsum is pH
neutral so it won't hurt any plant. If the soil is really heavy you
might have to repeat this 1-2 times over the next 12 months.

Rita.

from some reading you might want some dolomite and proably plenty of it

breaks up the clay and from burkes backyard would make a good soil

cheers

christopher

"Farea Saref" wrote in message
...
Hi every body.
The soil of my garden is strongly Clay and plastic.
I tried to plant many vegetables and result in complete failure. Please I
need help.
Thanks.
saref

A couple of years ago I dug about 30 bags of cheap potting mix into her
garden beds and they have never looked back. The heavy clay broke well into
the potting mix and the raised beds are looking great. Use about the same
amount of mix as clay and it has held really well with the garden blooming
well. The rain that used to run under her deck now stops and is soaked up by
the beds.

As a second bonus, once the heavy digging was done, everything turns easily
with a hand trowel, and potting seedlings etc. is so easy.
Hope this helps,
Peter