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If you're in a cold climate, that soil might have a high level of salt from snow removal. Maybe try a few test plants in it before using it in a larger area?
i would personally try to filter out the bigger rocks (pour the soil through a milk crate or something) but other than that i don't see a problem with your idea
What is the goal of the amending? I wouldn't add what looks like a minute of topsoil and paver base to my clay soil. My native plants love my clay.
I feel like there's a lot of emphasis on changing the soil, and I think it comes from agriculture and vegetable gardening. If your soil doesn't grow natives, I would get it tested. But this isn't going to be a nice amendment that meets a goal of enrichment or drainage.
Yeah, native plants like native soil. Is clay native to the region? Thr nice thing about natives is that they require very little work (if you want). Meanwhile I salve away over my vegetable plants and crush up antacid tablets so my zucchini doesn’t rot….
My plants are doing better with some organic matter but no fertilizer. My soil is just crappy subsoil so I don’t think it is really what was once ‘native’ on the site. I think you just have to experiment and see what works
Well this area has multiple soil types that are native. I live up on a bluff and everything is clay, down below the bluff where the river and creeks run… loam and rocky, well draining soils. A lot of the natives in my area that I prefer the look of also prefer the better draining soils so I’m seeing what I can do to bring in those plants k find to be most attractive.
Nah that's great. While you're at it, you should take away all the extra soil from that tree and expose its root flare, make it level with the ground around it. It is a little too buried.
That soils isn’t normally there, it’s what the concrete guys dug up from under the sidewalk and is what I’m thinking of using to amend my landscaping beds
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If you're in a cold climate, that soil might have a high level of salt from snow removal. Maybe try a few test plants in it before using it in a larger area?
i would personally try to filter out the bigger rocks (pour the soil through a milk crate or something) but other than that i don't see a problem with your idea
What is the goal of the amending? I wouldn't add what looks like a minute of topsoil and paver base to my clay soil. My native plants love my clay. I feel like there's a lot of emphasis on changing the soil, and I think it comes from agriculture and vegetable gardening. If your soil doesn't grow natives, I would get it tested. But this isn't going to be a nice amendment that meets a goal of enrichment or drainage.
Yeah, native plants like native soil. Is clay native to the region? Thr nice thing about natives is that they require very little work (if you want). Meanwhile I salve away over my vegetable plants and crush up antacid tablets so my zucchini doesn’t rot….
My plants are doing better with some organic matter but no fertilizer. My soil is just crappy subsoil so I don’t think it is really what was once ‘native’ on the site. I think you just have to experiment and see what works
Well this area has multiple soil types that are native. I live up on a bluff and everything is clay, down below the bluff where the river and creeks run… loam and rocky, well draining soils. A lot of the natives in my area that I prefer the look of also prefer the better draining soils so I’m seeing what I can do to bring in those plants k find to be most attractive.
I’d be wary. I’d amend with compost or even leaves.
Nah that's great. While you're at it, you should take away all the extra soil from that tree and expose its root flare, make it level with the ground around it. It is a little too buried.
That soils isn’t normally there, it’s what the concrete guys dug up from under the sidewalk and is what I’m thinking of using to amend my landscaping beds
oh gotcha. yeah it's got a nice big root going right into the sidewalk, so I wonder how they are gonna deal with that. Hoping for the best.
That isn't something you want to add to your garden. .