Why Clay Soil is Good, and How Water Moves Through Soil
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ค. 2021
- Gardeners often complain about having "clay soil", and it can be hard to shovel and work - but in terms of how well it hangs on to water and nutrients at the molecular level, it's actually pretty good stuff. Fresh off writing his new book: "Soil Science for Gardeners", we have we have author, teacher, master gardener, man of science and myth-buster Robert Pavlis to explain.
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Garden Myths, Soil Science for Gardeners and Building Natural Ponds
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I’ve come to appreciate my native clay soil. It was frustrating at first but once I learned the magic of organic matter it’s been so much better. I’ve never lived anywhere with sandy soil but from what I know about it I’d rather have clay than sand for sure.
Excellent information ❤
Another video full of good information.
My soil is rocks - many boulders, we don't use a shovel here, we use a pickax & haul out boulders by tying them to our truck. But we get great breezes & beautiful sunsets on our hill.
Two of my favorite northern gardeners in one spot. I have always added a bit of clay in my raised beds...most of my soil is sandy loam with patches of clay. Now I feel good about having access to clay.
Clay is great for pottery, too, eh? Lol. All sand is no fun. When i first started with my heavy clay garden in my back yard that had the topsoil stripped from it, i thought the best answer was to mix in as many bags of peat moss as i could. I knew nothing about soil Ph at the time and couldn't figure out why nothing grew in my garden, even though it was well broken up and easy to plant in it. Learning these things about organic matter, salts and nutrients, water holding capacity and "living soil organisms" has completely changed my success rate. This was a really good video about clay and its advantages. The best organic matter I know of to put into soil is grass/straw clippings. It not only doesn't turn my heavy clay soil into an acidic wasteland, it actually heals the soil.
As a professional gardener working during a drought, I see a huge benefit of having some clay in the soil versus the soil being completely peat and bark.
That's an interesting way to see it. We're in a silt area, but we specifically have large spots of construction clay, complete with chunks of asphalt that we collected from it, and the clay is pottery grade, so when we set up a garden bed in a heavy clay spot, we replace a trench of clay with silt, and then use the clay in other areas, and nothing goes to waste~
So helpful here! I have clay " hard pan" I've been working with and all your knowledge has helped me with my raised beds.
I'm in SoCal. I have rocky, heavy clay soil. I have been adding mulch and potting soil over the last 5 years. It's much better today. I have worms throughout my soil.
Congratulations on achieving 30 k subscribers. You've come a long way.
I live in a river delta region where we have clay soil but one thats been deposited by 5000 years of Glacial runoff. That clay is gold for me. The minerals it provides are what give my garden vigour and strength, hold humidity and so much more. Appreciating clay 100 %
Ditto.
We have an interesting multi-year project ahead of us... our new place's soil is almost entirely clay, and it's only 6-12" deep then you hit solid bedrock.
My native soil is loam with clay under it. It has many rocks in it though. But, that soil is pretty good for most plants. But, I recently put together a raised bed about 4 feet high and about 3 X 5. I paid a guy from down the road to bring me 2 bucket loads of "topsoil" from his woodland yard. Well, I ended up having clay soil on the top of my raised bed. I put some logs on the bottom of the bed, making it a "hugulkultur" bed. I am thinking that the 1 st scoop he dumped in was most likely dark loam soil that had been on top. Then, scoop #2 had been the clay that was underneath. I paid $75 for both scoops, so, I didn't complain. But, I will need to amend the clay soil. I planted some annual decorative plants in the bed, and they are stunted. They just are sitting there, no new growth. And, even if it rains or I water the bed, the soil has big cracks in it. It stays moist, but, is cracked.
My food forest hedge is sandy soil too beside the town rd
I think I have clay soil and I’m growing peas corn and garlic in it
I have a section of my yard (clay over a limestone bluff) that I've been adding a couple inches of finely ground year-old wood chips to every year for four years, and it's been a miracle transformation from clay to loam for six inches down. With big wood chips, it goes slower, but it does improve. Cover crops, I'm not impressed at all. As the finely ground chips are free, I rely more and more on those and chipped leaves from my and neighbors' yards for mulch. I do believe I'm done buying bagged compost.
Lol sand is fun lol we have all sandy soil with some top soil
living on sandy gravel railbed i can attest to the difficulty in building organic matter.