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Old March 1st, 2009 #7
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Originally Posted by George Witzgall View Post
my garden is pure clay. so I decided to use my aryan ingenuity to do something about it. I had the local quarry dump ten tons of stone dust in the garden (at $6/ton, the cost was $60 plus $70 for the delivery).

this stone dust was the runoff from the quarry operations, they regarded it as waste, but in actuality it is a good sandy/silty loam. I built two seives (coarse and fine) and have been tilling the sifted loam into the garden at 3-4 inches. soil feels wonderful (although it is now purply-brown since the stone dust was blue and clay was red).

Note: I also plan on tilling in decayed wood chips and rotten leaves to enrich the soil.
Clay soil here. No problems growing. I did add a couple of bags of garden soil from Ace Hardware every week. But, I still had no problem growing in the clay. Clay tends to hold water more so than other soils and is more dense.

Worms are your friend in the garden. They will aerate the soil.
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