Inheriting a clay garden for veggies

[kevn357]

Originally Posted by Worth1

Not all soil called clay is really clay and not all clay is alike.
Some will hold water for days and some for a few hours.
Some is good enough to make pottery from.
Some is red some is gray.
The best thing to add to clay or clay loam soil is sand and humus.
Then till it to mix it up.

I'm sorry if you didn't take my question about color and type seriously.
But there is no professional way a person could answer your question without the information.
Telling a person to ad this or that without knowing the PH of the soil or the fertility of it is haphazard.
I will not give advice on that basis.
In my opinion.
Worth

Sorry, I work very long shifts on the weekends and am trying to reply to everyone who are taking their time to offer aid. I appreciate every reply I get!


The clay is reddish. And it holds water forever. We had a nasty drought last year and his garden did the best he can remember...

I don't know anything of substance for this area yet. I was hoping I would find a local who had some knowledge. When I moved here last June I tried to till the soil, and said, "nope"! Since it was so dang hard. I borrowed a rototiller nicknamed "shamu" that couldn't make a dent into that hard clay so I made some grow beds and made my Self watering containers and had success since I know how to do that.

We live a mile apart and the clay is the same. When it did rain his garden looked like a pool beside the rows and the clay was sticky and heavy to the boots.