How to Amend Clay Soil | Troy-Bilt®
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Gardening expert and Saturday6™ blogger Erin Schanen shares tips on amending clay soil for vegetable gardening. For more gardening tips and videos, sign up for The Dirt at troybilt.com.
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Have your neighbors save their leaves in the fall, spread about 15" deep over the fall garden, wet down the leaves and cast some urea nitrogen over the leaves to feed the micro organisms. You can let them winter over or till them in (I till them in with Big Red a week later) I also add AZOMITE/ROCK DUST to the leaves before tilling wear a mask to spread rock dust. The leaves have trace elements but AZOMITE has 70+ elements it gives your plants the rare chemicals to help the plants fight off diseases. The leaves will break down, quickly if tilled in now or by spring will be about 1-2 inches to till in. What this does is add compost to break the clay down and feed the worms who make tunnels to drain the soil and paths for roots to grow and leave worm castings/fertilizer the best kind. I also till in my mowed grass every mowing in non-planted areas, as I put no chemicals/herbicides on my lawn. In 3-4 weeks it disappears having tilled it weekly in 4 mowings the clay no longer clumps. I also work in the chicken bedding with the grass if it is time to clean the coop, but will not plant that area till next year as the soil will winter over and kill diseases. In two years I now have black fertilized soil. WILL put a bed of leaves on the garden again this fall and add AZOMITE, "YOU FEED THE SOIL AND IT WILL FEED YOU IN RETURN." TROY-BILT Tillers are the best I Own a Big Red, a Pony, and a Junior.
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