RainSong
Well-Known Member
This area is... well.. clay. In fact, they used to make bricks used world-wide from the soil here. This is that awful stuff that stains everything a nice bright orange, sticky as all heck...
My step-dad and Mom's solution was to mix cheap potting soil and cow manure into the soil. There has GOT to be a better way! I've heard rabbit droppings can work wonders. A lot of the soil here in Oregon seems to have a higher clay content (at least, the places I've lived and been doing any sort of gardening/digging work!), so even when we move, once we have someplace I can have a garden in the future, I want to be prepared.
I know the areas they were doing the potting soil/manure mixes on are better then the non-treated areas, but they're still pretty bad- and they've dumped in BAGS upon BAGS of the stuff out there. Iris grow like weeds here, so do roses with some rose food every few years, and the carnations were doing well till my step-dad pulled them all out with the grass... but the trees don't do so well, and there's quite a few other plants that don't grow very well. They "live" but... don't really thrive.
So, anyone know how to improve this stuff?
If using rabbit droppings, can you mix in wood shavings if they're mixed in with the droppings?
My step-dad and Mom's solution was to mix cheap potting soil and cow manure into the soil. There has GOT to be a better way! I've heard rabbit droppings can work wonders. A lot of the soil here in Oregon seems to have a higher clay content (at least, the places I've lived and been doing any sort of gardening/digging work!), so even when we move, once we have someplace I can have a garden in the future, I want to be prepared.
I know the areas they were doing the potting soil/manure mixes on are better then the non-treated areas, but they're still pretty bad- and they've dumped in BAGS upon BAGS of the stuff out there. Iris grow like weeds here, so do roses with some rose food every few years, and the carnations were doing well till my step-dad pulled them all out with the grass... but the trees don't do so well, and there's quite a few other plants that don't grow very well. They "live" but... don't really thrive.
So, anyone know how to improve this stuff?
If using rabbit droppings, can you mix in wood shavings if they're mixed in with the droppings?