Starting my first garden and i need help with red clay? and Garden mothing 2011 #34, August 5 (micros)

Starting my first garden and i need help with red clay?

I am just starting up my own garden. I use to have a garden with my dad when i was younger but i really don't remember much. I live in Alabama and the ground is made up of this hard red clay. I have talked to a bunch of different people in this area and they have basically stopped gardening vegetables because of how bad the clay is. I am gonna till the ground then mix sand into the ground and get a soil sample is there anything else i need to do?


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Answer by D W
Hi Michael:

I have 11 acres in northeast Texas that has the absolute worst red clay soil I have ever seen. We have tilled, added sand and peat moss. Finally we discovered the best thing to do was make raised bed gardens by placing landscaping fabric over the clay and ordering a truckload of topsoil/mulch.

Even when I plant a new tree or shrub I dig a hole, put top soil and manure in the bottom, fill with water and then put the tree in filling around the roots with the soil and mulch.

Best of luck...

Garden

Garden mothing 2011 #34, August 5 (micros)


Saltmarsh Plume, Agdistis bennetii .

This distinctive plume moth was a highlight of the micros in the trap. It's a coastal saltmarsh species and I've only seen it once before in the garden (which is neither coastal nor saltmarsh!).

Yponomeuta evonymella 2 NFY
Ypsolopha scabrella 1
Hofmannophila pseudospretella 2
Agonopterix heracliana/ciliella 1
Bryotropha affinis 2
Bryotropha domestica 1
Blastobasis adustella 3 NFY
Pandemis cerasana 1
Acleris variegana 1
Chrysoteuchia culmella 4
Crambus perlella 3
Agriphila tristella 4
Agriphila geniculea 1
Pyrausta aurata 1
Udea lutealis 1
Pleuroptya ruralis 6
Endotricha flammealis 3
Trachycera advenella 4
Agdistis bennetii 1 NFY
Emmelina monodactyla 1

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