While we feed the bees to enhance the pollination of our garden, why not improve our clay soil too? For each flowering plant that grows in clay soil I'll include; where it's known to be native,...
Category: Soil Building
Edible crops that can be grown in clay include a large variety of annual and perennial vegetables, herbs, and berries. I'll cover numerous common and uncommon options for each category including...
Your approach to preparing the ground for a food forest will (and should) vary based on the soil type that you have. No single approach is necessarily the best for your conditions. If you don't...
Proven Perennials to Enhance Drainage in Clay Soil In this article, you'll discover the preferences of more than 70 suitable plant choices for poor drainage in clay soil. To improve water-logged...
With careful deliberation, thriving food forests and even vegetable gardens can be (and have been) grown with clay soils. The challenges of clay include physical difficulty, compaction, poor...
We made several mistakes mulching everything there was to mulch, but you don't need to suffer the same losses. In this post, I've compiled all the best ways to mulch and how to avoid making all...