14 Plants for Clay Soil (What to Plant in Heavy Clay Soil) | Permaculture Soil Preparation
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- ༄ؘ ˑ Finding what to plant in heavy clay soil can be a challenge. In this video I supply you some resources where you can find more options of plants so we can combat challenges with diversity in mind.
Clay can seem difficult to work with but there are benefits for us to talk about too. These pros about clay are great for some kinds of vegetables! This is a video about vegetables that can do well in clay soil: (coming soon!)
Informative resources mentioned in the video:
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0:00 Introduction
1:11 Weeds!
2:00 Daikon Radish
2:33 Globe Artichoke
3:00 Yarrow
3:32 Comfrey
4:32 Hairy Vetch
4:57 Goumi Berry
5:48 Buckwheat
6:44 Clover
7:32 Pear/apple tree
7:51 Roses
8:15 Forsythia
8:37 Flowering quince
Most of your information is correct
But you suggest digging wide and deep and filling with organic matter. This is actually the worst thing anyone can do with water logged clay soil
Is creates a larger water holding bowl that goes Antibiotics, and kills anything planted in it .
The best way to plant in clay is on mound.
Totally right! All we have actually done is mounds in clay scenerios - Not sure where I went wrong putting that in this video, certainly a mistake :)
Actually, in a drought area, waterlogging is not a problem. During the CA droughts, I planted comfrey in clay holes filled with compost. That area is now loam. For drought management, clay is gold. This year Ím playing with mini swales. Thank you @FoodForest! Love the list. ❤
Such a great video. I have a garden in Iran with heavy clay soil and have been thinking about letting all the grass grow to make the soil breath better. I also stopped watering my fruit trees directly. Instead I dug hole in between every 4 trees and I do all the watering in there. This way the trees are forced to grow roots and become stronger.
Good recommendations. I would add cornus family and willows. Service berries and hazelnuts too. And when planting on heavy soil, do not dig big holes that you fill with organic rich materials - that will create a water grave to your plants. Dig a large shallow hole and plant to a mound so the water will not stay on the top.
Peaches, apples, oranges and lemons all fair very well in my heavy clay soil on our farm, figs love it too, plums and prunes also loves the clay...
The information resource mentioned in the video is; "Plants for a Future" --a database of over 7000+ plants that are either edible or medicinal. You will find descriptions, edibility ratings, medical uses, special uses, environmental preferences and more! @t
Very helpful! I’m in zone 7b, with heavy clay. I planted horseradish root in my garden last year. It is a perennial and has enormous leaves for biomass for composting. I am also growing miscanthus grasses, which can grow in wet soils, as well as daikon radishes and comfrey which you’ve mentioned and I’ve started artichoke seeds this year. Thanks for the info! Good luck!🌱🌿🌱🌿🌱🌿
Nice!! Sounds like improvements will be happening!
Very informative. Glad you mentioned weeds as #1. Natural weeds serve a purpose.
Cow peas. Deep root systems and nitrogen fixers, Try early crop of daikon, chop the tops, and overbland peas. They will produce a lot of green manure as well as embed their roots.
Thank you for the tip on that website. I'm going to check them out. And 100% agree that "weeds" can be helpful.
Great video!
Great. Helpful list of what I was looking for.
So helpful!
Thank you Rachel! Your Chanel came up recommended. Have subscribed. Am working on food forest in a suburban property for the last 5 years and am obsessed now with constant learning about permaculture😍 . I had a hard time finding comfrey, but have 3 small plants now to put in the ground and wasn’t sure if I should put them near my fruit trees, as they are in an area where there are gas lines etc, and was worried if their deep tap roots may cause damage. So after watching your vid you reminded me of how well those plants can break up clay soil, so thank you, as I have the opposite side of my house where the soil is pure clay, so I will plant them there. Info comes when time is right, and patience is a virtue. Not always easy, yet something gardening teaches us! Thank you for your vid❤️✌️
Thank you for the comment! Happy to hear about your suburban food forest, you must be very unique in the eyes if your neighbors. Clay is for sure tricky where the best thing to do is plant what can tolerate it, chop and drop, amend amend amend, and one day, other things will grow happy too!
Goji berry
New sub - thank you for sharing. You are lovely and I look forward to future vids from your food forest. Blessings from northern california.
Thanks Rachel.👍
Thank you 🌹
Your a very beautiful young woman and your full of wisdom ✨️ ❤️.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experiences 🙏🏾 with the world 🌎
Nice.
Thank you for the info. We live in the Caribbean. Your facial features are very much like our family. Where are you from?
What a cool website. We have clay soil here in NY. I will be more mindful to plant some of these next year! I have wanted comfrey for a few years and have not gotten any, I guess I better start looking now. I have never heard of most of these!
Make sure you research the best comfrey for you to get! we have the bocking 14 russian comfrey strain. I would be happy to ship roots to anyone in Canada once my plants are established. But you will definitely want to get a sterile strain as once these plants are in the ground, they will not be able to be removed! If they seed and spread by seed, they will be everywhere and start taking over. So a sterile version is much easier to control and is simply propagated by root.
Keep on the look out for an upcoming video about MORE plants for clay :) Thank you for your supportive comments.
You know what I have heavy clay and grew cirrus well but they does in the freeze
I had no idea yarrow is beneficial in this way! I have tons of seeds that I can plant in my yard now! Thank you so much for the help!
I believe bachelor buttons (Centaurea) would be good too. From my experience, they did quite well in heavy clay soil. Thank you again for this video!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for sharing
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for sharing
Ive had good success with beans and peas, they'll fix nutrients especially if you terminate them before fruiting.
I also can grow lettuce for root matter. I sprout it indoors and when it's a few inches tall with several leaves, I transplant it out to the lawn. I only dig a space big enough for the root ball, and fill with native soil. Harvest the leaves two to three times, and terminate with the roots in the ground to rot and replenish.
I love regenerative farming practices, leaving the roots eliminates the need for chemicals because the microbiome is allowed to be restored and reused.
Sweet thanks for the insight on ur experience!
Goji Berry.
*Mic drop
U look awesome rach
Thank you
I like weeds.
Rachel, I am hoping you can help me! Your knowledge and story is inspiring, and I would love your help in phytorestoration of clay rich soils.
How can I help you with that, Timothy?
@@FoodForestLiving So I can't add any organic material to the clays to start. I need to introduce anything that will take root to start the process. I've had very mild success with brassicas, but the salt/ EC is too high. I'm going to try Dutch White Clover, but I'm looking for more suggestions on top cover that will help establish the micro-ecosystem.
@@tim2point0 organic matter is essentially key.
The best way is to grow what you can and chop and drop them. but it will take lots of time to change heavy clay for sure regardless. Nitrogen fixers, water lovers, and saline tolerant plants. If you cant find plants to grow, let "weeds" take over and chop them before they seed.
A free way to get organic matter is every fall go around and collect leaf bags, shred them up and add them on the clay. Layer every year.
Start a food scrap compost bin and worm bin to get extra worm castings to add.
Start a compost pile asap. burn up some bio char to add to your compost.
Make/grow your soil! :)
@@FoodForestLiving Awesome, thank you. Any suggestions on saline tolerant weeds to try and search for? You rock! And coming from a geologist, that's a compliment.
Generally I think grasses do okay. Take a look here: www.biosalinity.org/salt-tolerant_plants.htm
Great info. It would be better if you added pictures of the plants while talking about them.
Thank you!
Most of the options you have are for cold climate zone. Suggest something for hot climate like india
I would love this also, but as this lady lives there, I doubt she's wanting to do that research. Idk, but I'm starting with pigeon peas and mongo beans (bushes, nitrogen fixers) and idk if it's causal, but threw in some sweet potatoes and ended up with a very abundant section of land there. Would love more suggestions.
Strawberry, #3 dandelion, #4 cherry tomato, squash, grapes, basil, blackberry, #2 mint, cucumber, and by FAR easiest to grow... (Should be #1 on any list for clay soil) Goji Berry.
Goji grows 2-5 times faster and produces fruit in it's first year when grown in heavy clay and requires very little to no water.
Here in the u.s. people call it a super food. Highly marketable.
Weeds grow "for a reason". What is that reason??
Available space and a variety of weeds are generally the first successions to what would eventually become a forest.
Is there a comfrey video yet?
Not quite yet! I Will be sure to do it most likely next spring/summer. The original comfrey we planted were rotted roots. We were only hoping that they would survive, and didnt unfortunately due to bad packing from where we purchased it! We did however purchase a new batch and got them successfully growing this time around and so next year we can do a video about them because they will be nice and established and ready for cutting!
Thanks for sharing this information. I’m in Texas and have clay soil that almost becomes quicksand like when it rains .. we go from very dry to absolutely drenched in water
@@Chatwithkat23 glad this helped! what are you look to know specifically about comfrey plant?
I don’t know anything at all about it
Might work in a few hundred years you have to bring in outside soil or add woodchips for years better still buy land with better soil i tried growing weeds etc it takes a lifetime
but you can grow some useful "weeds" at the least :) If one needed to plant right away, raised beds or well made hugelkultur mounds are probably the best answers.
@@FoodForestLiving after 18 months of hard work i decided on native fruit trees raspberry strawberries and native flowers beehives let the rest go natural
I would consider a comfrey meadow and bee hives. You could hack down some whenever you want for comfrey tea fertilizer . Keep it simple ! Perhaps you could garden around the edges but it looks like a real mess. We used to play in that when kids and had to escape leaving our rubber boots behind .
Your thumbnail looks like the mona lisa
Were you born in September?
Hairy snatch, I mean hairy vetch.