How to plant in clay, poorly draining, and compact soils. Proper tools, amendments, and techniques.
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This video is a detailed description of planting in clay or poorly draining soils. This video shows the gardening tools, soil amendments, and techniques for managing difficult soil situations. Learn how to dig easier in compact soils and the amendments that can improve them in the future.
Jim has over 30 years experience in the green industry and is the current owner of Earthworks Nursery.
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I am 77 and am past digging with a pick axe. I use a tulip auger on my drill. Works great!
I use that method too, but also have a 40V cordless posthole digger that I use. Makes perfect little holes for 1 or 2 gallon plantings.
As always, if you ask 12 gardeners, you will get at least 20 different opinions.
RE: tools
I generally feel the old traditional tools have passed the test of time HOWEVER, a while ago I purchased a tool called, THE CLAW. It looks like a long handled digging fork with the tines bent into a corkscrew pattern and with a handle placed cross wise at the top.
What it does is to stur the soil without your needing to lift it. It works great and is far easier on my aching back.
Also-
RE: Organic matter
I suggest using whatever you can get cheaply. In the past, when I had my boat, I would save the seaweed that everyone else swore at. It was full of micro neutriants, it was free
and saltwater weeds will not grow in your garden. Results are amazing. I also use coffee grinds, mixed into the soil-again they are free. Not sure why but they attract earthworms.
The worms work your soil-again for free. At 3:00 the worms stop working. They stop for a coffee break. HAD TO SEE IF ANYONE WAS STILL READING MY LONG COMMENT
Susan Siegel Really 3:00 p.m. or a.m. EarthWorms Stop for Coffee Grinds Break or Something Else like VermiPooping!
Susan Siegel So.... will the worms work any faster if my grounds are from espresso?
Susan Siegel lol I read it and I also use coffee grinds in my soil. My banana plants love them!
ladies and gentlemen the claw is not for CLAY SOIL , this hort guy does have dense compact ground , and I have the densest fine clay that CATS DO NO GO NEAR
Lol...
Thanks to you, I bought a trenching shovel. (Our soil is almost all clay.). My gardening life is much better now.
I know this video is 4 years old but this is exactly what I was looking for tonight!! I almost cried today realizing how much clay is in our front porch to be landscaped. Thank you!! May call you for a consultation!
Ella, you have my deepest sympathy. We have 100 acres of environmental zoned land in the Hunter Valley in Australia. Highly reactive permean (hence the zoning - the are has permean fossils) clay. I warn our visitors - do not stand or drive on anything brown if it's wet! The block is sploped. The house is a suspended cantilevered concrete floor and the shed 2000sqft and is on fill. The earthworks and shed slab were frightening.
I have had my right foot amputated and have had four back ops, so I'll go the tiniest shovel!
I'm learning as a newbie how to deal with it from the gardening perspective.
Good luck in your endeavours. :)
So hard to find such clear and useful information. He's great!
Wow! I just came across this. I live in Central California. So not south at all. But i just bought a 107 year old home. And the soil is very compacted. And sandy too. Its weird. I have been composting so im making some beautiful soil. But the part where he talks about making a "clay pot" really hit me. I did break up soil a bit under my veggie garden. But i cannot even remember the bag of stuff i added??? One bag was mostly woodchips so i put that on top. Now i need to take some notes to really help my plant babies. Thank you all for the help.
Meet too!
Finally a channel from the south. Most channels that I have found are from the north. Nobody knows clay like a southerner. Great information, I subscribed.
+Cathy Brown Thanks for watching and subscribing
I live in SW Indiana. Although our soil isn’t the red color like that which is found in some southern states...believe me, it is hard, heavy clay.
We have horrible clay soil here in western Oregon. Sticky when it's wet, and during the summer shrinks into a rockhard mass that won't let water permeate. Of course weeds have no trouble growing in it.
Ruth stout method covered with back to eden method and make the land vigorous again. It really is that easy.
@@THEREALInfamousP Unless you are in the a wet and damp area and then you are just creating a slug nursery on that wet clay.
He reminded me of how much my late Dad loved his rake. He had it for years and years, and as he said "it's had about four new handles and three new heads but it's the best rake ever" :)
Easily the best video for planting shrubs in this soil setting!! I love how humble you are as well. Explaining the different bags of material was extremely beneficial! Thank you sooo much 🙏
This video saved me from making a few costly mistakes. Thank you!
Obviously, I’m late to the party having only discovered your channel within the past year but have to comment that your instructional style is so thorough and you also share an absolute wealth of information, I feel like I’m attending a Master Class. Bravo, Jim! Thank you so much for all that you do.
I miss these old videos. Jim knows his stuff. He was all business back then .
Wish I had seen this before I planted my hedge in clay soil! Such good info.
From a former Raleigh landscaper....well done Jim!
So grateful to see a knowledgeable person presenting these correct steps to plant installation and gardening! Thanks!
So glad to find a southern gardener. I'm in North Georgia...at the base of Stone Mountain. Red clay soil with rocks, rocks and more rocks. Your instructions very helpful. Thanks
This is SO helpful. I moved into a new construction home. Pros: no tree roots to deal with. Cons: red construction filler clay for many inches, so many rocks I don't even know what to do with, sod that doesn't want to grow into a massive slate of rock it was laid on top of, etc. No worms!!! Haven't found a single one. It's so heavy packed and dense, I'm not surprised.
I just moved to an area with clay soil for the first time and failed miserably at planting my first shrub. Couldn’t even dig the hole and really made me question my self worth 🤣 Thank you for this video, it was exactly what I needed!
your worth it. go for a swim and learn yoga.
I've been using the wrong soil mix to plant in clay all these years! Local Garden centers don't know what to do either! I knew about digging the clay pot. But I've been working too hard! No more! My parents always won Yard of The Month wherever we lived. Charleston or Columbia, SC. Dad knew everything! Miss him so much! Enjoying your videos! Tam from Columbia, SC.
You shouldn't have to amend even clay soil. It's the earth. Plants know how to grow in it and clay soil is chock full of nutrients. But you do need to choose the right plants.
I love the mans passion for his rake.
Obviously lives his tools☺💚
A pick ax! Duh! Im so thankful for this. Im turning up way too much compacted clay and rocky earth to amend it for a raised garden bed and between a spade shovel and pitch fork I was going to lose my mind. Back to work tomorrow
Clay and rock 😔 they don't call it Rock City here for nothing. I've lived here 30 years and over the years I had my sons dig holes in this "dirt" and they said if they had to plant one more tree they were not going to mow the yard anymore 😁 😉 I've been retired for a year and I'm going to make my ugly old small backyard into a beautiful garden and I've learned a lot from you.. thank you
This video was super helpful. I bought all the tools and came home and hit my hard flower bed with the pick axe. It worked like a charm. Thanks, Jim!
Amazing show and tell. Love the fact that you actually demonstrated everything .
Was he choking up talking about his rake? My type of outdoorsman!
I think he was, very sweet. And his pic ax. Awe. Ilove this man
I was more choked up than him. That's the most beautiful yellow rake handle I've ever seen!
lol awesome question/comment.
Lol! I noticed that too!
I think he needs to get his heart checked, he seems out of breath too much.
Very nice demonstration of planting in clay soil. This is a very common problem in many areas of the country.
Outstanding instructional video at a basic level that is easily understandable. Your efforts, skills and shared knowledge are sincerely appreciated. THANKS
+john kulcsar Thank you for watching and commenting
Thank you. Very helpful!
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I'm excited I found this video and your channel. I'm a new homeowner in the Clayton/Wendell area and your videos are almost tailor-made for every yard project I've been taking on this spring. I wish I'd seen it before I planted all my blueberries and hydrangeas in 50/50 peat moss and mulch!
SO grateful for our fellow Americans that help us learn the ropes on this kind of stuff....THANK YOU!!
This video has helped me so much! Clay conditioning soil has really made the biggest difference with my gardening.
As we embark on landscaping our front yard ourselves, this is truly helpful, and I so appreciate you taking the time to share your knowledge with the world! Thank you!
Just moved here from Oregon and I’m thrilled to have found your channel, Jim. A virtual wealth of great information. After spending my first
year thru the seasons I’m ready to make a few changes in the yard and your channel will help me avoid a bunch of uninformed mistakes. Thank you.
Welcome. Thanks for watching
Thanks so much for uploading this very educational video!! One never stops learning no matter how many years a person has been gardening.
Jim,you are so correct on a trenching shovel in clay. It made planting several trees in clay much easier. Thanks for teaching an old man (me)new tricks.
May I just say, I love it that you’re a landscaper and still have such an amazing garden. My step dad is a landscaper and he rarely has time to garden. He says he’s lucky if he gets to mow the lawn lol
I'm back! This video is such an informative one that I wanted to come back for a refresher view. Videos like this, I like to put in my arsenal of HOW TO videos on how to do things the right way! To bad I can't give it a thumbs up each time I watch it!.👍
You Sir, are a master of the clay! I have struggled many years with the southern clay soil. After watching your video, I think that my planting will greatly improve! Thank you!
I am so glad I found your channel - all of these are incredibly helpful. And you helped me realize how many things I’ve already done wrong in my clay soil... thank you!!
Thank you for explaining how to use the “tools” and your soil mixing technique.
So happy that I found your videos! Moved to Raleigh little under a year ago and did not realize how much clay based soil is here. Fantastic video and very informative!
I am so grateful for this video! Where would my plants be without this?? 😵💫 Thank you!!
Great advice on the shovels, thanks so much! ♥ For years, I used to dig clay soil with my large 12" shovel, every time getting angry about how "weak" I was :)))) until I finally learned that you are not supposed to do that :) By that time, most of my clay yard was done :))))
Thank You Thank You Thank You! I bought a very old house with very established plants and weeds that I don't want hanging around. I really don't have the budget for a landscapers and as a city girl I have no idea what I'm doing and have been battling these these for over a year. I've been watching your videos all day and my goodness. Just thank you!
Thank you from southeast TN finally someone addressing issues with our soil. Great video keep it up.
Thank you. Glad to help.
Oh dear, I've been doing this all wrong. I have been using good soil conditioner that I get at my nursery, but I've been adding cow manure as well and a lot of it with the soil conditioner. I'll mix it really good with the red clay until it looks and feels like cake mix. My new landscape seems to be doing fine, but I want to do it correctly moving forward. So glad I came across this video.
I think you’ll be ok; especially if you are doing whole beds. He’s talking about digging holes directly in nearly pure clay which can form a bowl from which water can’t evacuate from.
Thank you so much for this! It is exactly what I needed to do well in my area. I had been making all the mistakes you warned of for two years. So glad my wife found this!
Awesome. Thanks for watching
Lol turns out I was also using all of the things he says not to use 😂
Jim (and others reading), you may be interested in what I did today with some of our clay soil in the backyard. I dug a hole to plant an apple tree (it is spring here in Australia) and removed quite a lot of clay and planted the tree into a combination of compost mixed with quality garden soil. The clay was dug out in chunks, each roughly 4 inches in diameter. I've placed them out of the way behind some shrubs for now. I put a few chunks of clay in a bucket and filled the bucket with water, The water went brown immediately and believing clay to be full of good minerals, I tipped the brown water into a watering can and watered the vegetable garden and the newly planted apple tree. Hopefully this will give the vegetables and apple tree a boost. I mulched the apple tree after planting it, with wood chips.
So happy I found you! I'm in North Carolina and my new home has all hard red clay. I was so excited to plant flowers, shrubs and trees until the first time I tried. I have barely planted anything because it is so difficult. Not enjoyable at all! This is so helpful!
Thank you for the advice. I'm new to working with rocky clay soil and find that digging a single hole was difficult and time consuming. I believe your tips will help me a lot!
FINALLY AN ANSWER! Zone9b clay soil here in So Cal. Thank you! I have a 20ft H x 80ft W slope that has pre existing fruit and hedge planted up high on the ridge. I have only tackled small shrubs down close to the retaining wall base, so far - for fear of failure. Thank YOU, I have been searching for this SPECIFIC advice!
What I’ve learned from old-school Japanese gardeners and bonsai nursery owners for planting in clay/compact soil... gypsum powder 😉
Improves drainage and loosens/aerates clay
Adds beneficial calcium
Flushes out excess sodium buildup
Less Talk, More Delicious thx, is it a natural thing?
Can you add Gypsum to an already planted tree?
It is natural. It's mined from the earth, Ashley Good.
Cara Buchanan yes. It’s soluble enough that it’ll wash into the soil next time it rains hard.
Im in NC too and just beginning the journey of try to fix the planting areas of the house I've lived in for 20 years. I had no idea how challenging it would be!
Thank you!! Very useful. I live in Spain, Mediterranean zone and I just bought a house in the countryside with plenty of space to plant lots of trees and plats. I like very much your videos, you give a very detailed explanation which I will follow :)
Thanks for watching.
Malena valcarcel - Please be aware the moist retention capability of clay. Might be a small advantage in your particular location. Same for the manure/composts you´ll want to use. Check before amending your soil. ;-)
Cheers
Thanks Jim, I learned a lot from your videos. Some of the simplest things I hadn't thought of will make my gardening much easier. I live in Covington, LA where the ground is rock hard and had once been a golf course. Drainage is awful. We had a professional do some French drains and other drains because we made a large garden in the front of the house and on the side by our front side door another which stunk to high heaven when we first moved into our new build home. Initially, I had purchased extra top soil and some garden soil Miracle Grow into the holes where the new gardens were planted only to find that the new gardens were in a large bowl that didn't drain. Wow! We did use a professional landscaper but either they nor I realized these were going to be clay bowls that rotted and stunk. They were able to come back out and put in drains that helped and when we added a side cement sidewalk going around the side/back of house, we used some strips (hwy.) strips that had drain holes, so we have been doing ok. However, I keep adding more soil each year as the top soil/Miracle Grow garden soil drifts down, leaving our gardens lower than sidewalks to drain. Do you have any suggestion about how to keep this soil from sifting down and yes it's packing really hard and needing to be aerated. We are senior citizens and it's getting harder to handle. Any suggestions much appreciated. You are a blessing, thanks Barbara
Nice to hear someone talk abt the area. I'm in Kdale and digging in this clay is terrible! But I planted those trees! Good vid!
Just moved to East TN and so glad I’ve found this channel! So different from what I needed to know in the SW.
What a great video. So much extremely valuable information in 25 minutes. Thanks!
+Ashish Borkar Thank you very much.
Hi
Mattock. Excellent video, probably the best on youtube. Clay soil is a terrible problem in southern Australia as well.
I live 30mins from Raleigh and yes we have clay soil here! I was using regular shovel to dig and omg yes it was hard to dig lol I didn’t see or find your video till now 😒 but thank you for sharing I know proper tools to use now
I am SO glad I came across this! I currently live in Upstate SC and we plan on buying a few acres of property soon. Since we have the same kind of red clay soil this tells me exactly what I needed to know before we plant!
The ground in this area is just unbelievable. It's like concrete and very aggravating to work with.
Awesome video - very helpful to me in Southwest GA with the rich red/orange clay soil.
We also have a lot of clay soil here out West in Silicon Valley, AKA "The Valley of Heart's Delight". Now I understand why my father's post hole digger works so well, as it is even narrower than a trench shovel. So edifying, thank you. Gotta go learn about Azalea now!
I live in SW Washington and have that yellow/orange clay too. We get a lot rain so battling moss on the surface and clay underneath is a little tricky. Thanks for the tips because that clay is only a couple inches below the topsoil and it’s a monster to battle.
Same here! I moved here in 2021 and I’ve wasted $$$ planting things like hostas and peonies that just didn’t grow🤷🏽♀️
Thank you so much for producing this very informative video. It was EXACTLY what I needed to know to get my plants into the ground where they will actually survive!
We have moved to the land of clay soil and have a lot to learn. Thanks for all the good information
Im glad i saw this video because everyone kept saying peat moss and we have clay soil in parts of our yard and regular soil in other parts. The sunniest section of course is on the clay side
I'd like to add that when you mulch, especially when you've got clay or very hardened soil, ALWAYS make sure that your soil is damp and preferably your mulch as well. The best time to do an initial mulch will be after watering or a rain. If the soil is not dampened prior to mulching, you risk the mulch just creating a layer on top of the soil and water running straight over the ground between the soil and mulch and off to the next area where it's more easily penetrable. The soil being moist will also help to attract more worms. They love (dampened) cardboard/shredded newspaper and coffee grounds so spreading some underneath your mulch layer is good too. For me, I put a several inch thick layer of animal bedding (I've got goat and chicken bedding/manure) and then a few inches of wood chips. This fall I'll be gathering up all the leaves I can and putting them into a separate compost bin for some leaf mould. The areas I've done this with are already looking more workable and brown instead or red clay (as long as the chickens don't go mess up my mulching).
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I got an awesome annuals display this spring to autumn. I have a very hard clay soil in summer, that became hardy like concrete blocks and very sticky and damp in autumn and impossible to walking through in winter. What I did was to prune all the sterile blackberries branches that was in my garden (brambles) for the last 25 years and a make a large pile of those prunes and let them become decomposing it self in the environment. Them when it was dark brown, soft and was unable to sprout again I dig all my clay soil and mix all that 10 cm long brambles compost and dig again due to mix it all very very well. The result was that I direct sowed tagete erecta and tagete patula, cosmos, zinnia, alyssum, callendula, mint, purple basil, bellies perenis, primrose, viola, matricaria chamomile, matthiola, alcea rose, nepeta catarina, nigella damascena, sunflowers, wild linum, lettuce, ornamental grasses, grass, and they all came, out gorgeous. And in another bed I transplant from a pot coreopsis Walker low, verbena bonarensis, lisianthus, gaura lindimery, statice sinuata, antirrhinum, lonicera japonica, piper mint, lemon balm, lemongrass, rudbeckia, echinacea, lavender, and they workout wonderful too. I never had an wordy magazine photo garden before. I got lots of earthworms making humus from thos brambles and my soil retains the watering I give them 2 days per week in summer. (Before those vegetables materials in my soil I had to watering my flowers at morning and evening, because they withered). I save lots and lots liters of water I gain time to actually enjoy may garden, deadheading, etc.
By now my garden looks as beautiful like the better spring explosion of flowers and colors.
What I also to, take those cat grass pot (rye, wheat, oats) and divide in 6 parts and plan direct on my soil in another bed. Rye helps to protect as a barrier on very windy days and in late summer give me plenty of straw to add carbon to my soil, or mulch. The give lots of seeds, some to birds and some to next sowing. Wheat and oats I use as green compost to add nitrogen and also improve my soil. And that is my experience from one abandoned bush land that no one could walk dur to de stings to and awesome flower garden. Lots of birds singing, bees buzzing, butterflies, mantis, bumblebee, and others insects. I got a new ecosistema with a lot of spices I never saw before. And they "work for me" pollinators and control pest, I have no pests at all.
Greetings.
God bless you Jim weathering the chill to demonstrate this. I realize I’m commenting on an older video. But man did I need to view it. We have limestone clay soil here in Deep South zone 8a. Ugh. I keep buying compost and garden soil and worm castings to plant my perennials and flowering plants. And have mounded it all up over the clay soil to avoid working with the clay soil. However I have a huge amount of yard and I know I cannot keep avoiding it. Especially because next year I’ll be wanting to begin planting shrubs and some maple trees (got hooked after your Mr. Maples video tour and now I’ve gotta have more). Anyhoo. Jim this has been so helpful and I will be watching it probably a couple more times as a refresher as the time gets near for my planting projects. Right now I’m focusing on cleaning things up and redesigning the landscape. Thank you always for sharing your knowledge talent and wisdom. I’m learning from you all the time.
I love my pick-ax! my British mother always called it a mattock, so that's what I usually call it. I have used it for everything.
Maddock. I was raised in Ohio USA in the 1960's. Dad called it a Maddock there💚
@@didarden great tool no matter what we call it!
Mattock is the correct name as you had it. A great tool.
So helpful! You don't see many videos about planting in clay soil.
Thank you Mr. Putnam, you rock!
Your soil amendments are great, but the only permanent improvement is adding sand and silt to make loam. The organics burn out over time and require continuous replenishment.
Adding sand and silt to clay you get cement. You can add gypsum to help break it up but organic materials are the best way to change it and truly make it better quality soil. It will always need more organic materials. The constant replenishment is part of the whole point. It's how it works in nature so why not in our gardens as well? Our gardens, even though cared for by us, are still part of nature's cycles.
Hi kuhomada bro oya marada
Instead of a pic ax which does work, I have found my pitch fork much more productive. Work smarter not harder😅 The pitch fork breaks up a larger area and is about the same size as the shovel. Also if I'm adding soil condioner the pitch fork allows me to easily mix into the clay like a blender. Then I use my shovel to remove the new improved soil, add the shrub, back fill it with the improved soil. Easy peezy😉💕 tfs! Im enjoying your videos!
Excellent video.....I have clay soil in my yard so I appreciated your time, skills and effort to make this video. I subscribed
+Sonia Trott Great, glad to help. Thanks for watching
Thanks for the soil ammendment recs! At 59, I discovered my cordless recip. saw with old wood pruning blades made chopping through roots much easier. Cut to digging post holes for fencing and yes, I used the recip to loosen soil! Actually, I like it using a post hole digger to dig shrub, tree, plant holes. Yes, I am lazy and my rotator cuff is shot!
Hey thanks for posting this. I ve been having a hard time finding videos on this. They all say different things but not very specific.
At least 12 inches of grey wet clay here in northern Delaware. Over the three years I've been here it has never really dried up. On top of that, the yard is FLAT! I am all about using the soil amendment. It really can make the difference between a plant living or craoking.
This video was AMAZING! You helped me out tremendously! Thank you!
Revisiting this video three years later bc ice recently moved and the soil is much more clay based. Ughhh. Thankfully your channel is helping me deal with it.
In Brazil they create terra-petra. They use limestone and seashells to neutralize the acidic clay. They then use charcoal or biochar which lasts longer than the wood mulch or pine bark mulch. The charcoal aerates and loosens the clay and holds nutrients keeping them from leaching away.
Thanks for all the information you share. My husband and I love to see your videos.
I am a new home owner and planned out a garden but was totally overwhelmed, as this is my first time gardening and we have heavy clay as well. No other videos were able to tell me *exactly* what I need to do, start to finish. Your simple but detailed instructions have made me feel confident and excited to start! Thank you so much for this video!
Erin M Us too with the soil. Raised beds for food, and amending ALOT for in ground 😝
Same here in Western CO. I needed to do something fast that wouldn't take years of soil amendments and TIME. We decided to start with small flowerbeds around the front of the house and we ended up shoveling a lot of clay soil out (for the trash), then we bought a variety of soil amendments (miracle grow in ground use, compost, mulch, worm castings) and added as we planted. We mostly eyeballed ratio. I'm not saying this is ideal or right way but our flowers are doing well so far.
Thank you. One of my favorite videos. I always learn a lot. I’m right down the road in Franklinton, NC.
Thank you. Our property is one big lump of clay on top of a slab of granite.
+Tina I have landscaped ones like that. It's not fun
It's a struggle. I have managed to learn how to air-layer and also how to do regular layering of azaleas and rhododendrons --- and succeeded with at least one of the rhododendrons. So I am hoping to eventually have a beautiful garden instead of the mess we have now. Thanks for replying!
Jason with Fraser Nursery Channel recommended your channel. Looking forward to your videos. Love the first one I watched. How to plant in Clay soil. Great!
This dude is a plant GOD! 😍
I live in a section of Hillsborough NC where the soil is not only orange-red clay but also completely compacted, and I therefore avoid buying anything but baby plants so as to avoid having to do the impossible, namely dig a decent-sized hole. Thanks to you, though, I just learned I've been using the wrong end of the pickaxe! But still... digging holes in this area, not for the faint of heart! 😄
Thanks so much for the video. I live in southern maryland, and the soil is pretty loose, but this video was definitely helpful.
I’m glad you are showing us
Thank you! Finally i understand! Great explaining. Excellent teacher. 😊
Super helpful! Thanks for showing the process from beginning to end - makes a huge difference to see every steps and details. Very informative and helpful!
Really good info, I had been doing much of the same for my clay soil but learned a lot from you. Thanks
Thank you for this detailed and easy to follow planting guide. I live in nevada and have very hard I assume clay like soil I will definitely be adding soil amendments thanks to you. My nursery will be able to tell me what we need for our soil here in Nevada. Great video 👍🏾 I learned a lot. 😊
Brilliant, I’ve been doing it all wrong.
Good info! I laughed when you mentioned the shovel lost an inch in usage. I have 2 picks that are wore down to 3 inch tips on the picking side due to working in hard clay for years. Thanks for all your work.
It will wear them out. Wears us out also.
Thank you so much I learned so so so much great information!!!
This video has taught me that my soil isn’t nearly as clay heavy as I thought it was, lol. Thanks for the great information and tips.
yeah, i was like i'm pretty sure i love using a round point shovel! and then i saw what 1000% clay looks like.
Amazing ,very professional thank you
Beautiful planting Jim. I have to come to you to get my confidence for the gardening day.
I learned so much, thank you!
It’s winter here in New Zealand and the clay is very wet. Planting native trees and shrubs so they settle in before the long summer. Our ground is on a slope so l have cut a small trench on the downside of each hole so the water drains away. I’m planting natives that naturally like boggy clay soil down by the creek but I’m still worried they could drown. Thank you for re enforcing the correct method for planting in clay. Nice to know I’m doing it right.
U made the explanation very simple and easy for understanding. Well done Sir.
Great video! I live in the foothills of nc and our yard is almost all red clay crap! I've made the mistake of using peat moss in the clay
Thank you for showing the whole process. That way we don't miss a step.