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Originally Posted by loulac
Personally I like clay, though I may cuss it from time to time. You have to study its dampness carefully before gardening, you make a mistake and clay will be plastic mud or as hard as concrete. Trying to improve it with sand won’t work, they don’t mix correctly. Adding dead leaves, manure, wood chips etc. will give wonderful results and allow clay to keep a most important quality : it will still store water in summer and spare gardeners a lot of work. I had once a garden surrounded with quarries feeding a cement plant, brick plants and I enjoyed working in it.
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Our gardens growing up were what people would call black clay but they were rich in organic matter.
If you went in right after a rain which no one did you would lose your boots in it.
My idea of clay is the stuff like potters clay that is nothing but microscopic platelets of silt with no organic matter.
Worth