Gardening in Atlanta means learning to garden with clay soil — which is not completely a bad thing — clay soil has a lot of positive properties as well. BUT… if you want to improve your soil quality, here are the two things I’ve noticed have made the BIGGEST difference in boosting my soil (and no, it’s not fertilizer).Leaves: those things that fall from the sky every fall is natures way of amending the soil — leaves break down overtime and enrich the soil. Don’t like the look of leaves in your g

How we break up heavy clay soil in our Texas garden! Using cover crops to not only add organic matter and prevent erosion can help any soil, but with clay soil a tillage radish can be very helpful to break things up! We are building the soil from the literal ground up at the new teaching garden so here is how we are doing it! We opted for some bartender radishes to get a harvest sooner but daikon radish is preferred for its larger tap roots to be used in this way. #radish #gardenharvest #claysoi

Treating heavy sticky clay soil