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When it's wet, but not saturated - like 1-2 days after a rain - you can decompact the soil with a strong metal broadfork and leave the soil in large block aggre
by thatcat 8mo ago
When it's wet, but not saturated - like 1-2 days after a rain - you can decompact the soil with a strong metal broadfork and leave the soil in large block aggregates. This keeps the soil structure and maintains some fungal web connections. Add nutrients, wood chips, stick and sand below aggregates and in cracks. Cover with compost and plant clover to cover.
- greazy 8mo agoThis is amazing info thank you. What is the purpose of planting clover?
- pja 8mo agoClover is a nitrogen fixing plant - used to be that you’d plant clover for a year in between other crops to make your soil fertile again. (It’s the bacteria in the roots that do the actual nitrogen chemistry.)
- Angostura 8mo agoReally good advice above. But if you want to cheat a bit, I used https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/vitax-clay-breaker--25-kg-box/6CB23TM https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/vitax-clay-breaker--25-kg-... on my heavy clay garden and it helped a lot, in combination with extra organic material etc.
- thatcat 8mo agothis is just gypsum in case anyone was wondering
- thatcat 8mo agoClover fixes nitrogen and roots help stabilize the voids in the soil. They sell seed mixes called "ground cover mix" that includes other plants and will help keep the soil from recompacting when it rains and keeps weeds at bay.