How do I Plant In TOUGH CLAY Soil? 6 Tips & Tricks

This video provides a step-by-step guide to planting and growing in clay soil. By the end, you’ll know exactly how to garden both flowers and vegetables into your own tough, muddy, cracked or just all around bad clay soil. These are all principles and techniques we successfully used to grow our own large veggie and flower garden in high clay content soil.

We’ll show you how to deal with the unique challenges of gardening in clay soil by improving its density, aeration, drainage, nutrient content, and much more. And we’ll do it all quickly and cheaply without any strategies that take months (or years) to implement or thousands of dollars.

Don’t be discouraged by how tough it is to plant in un-amended clay - it can be done and it can be done quickly!

Written article version of this video if you'd rather read than watch: https://nextdoorhomestead.com/blog/ho...

Equipment you might want to follow this video
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Wheelbarrow: https://www.amazon.com/Ames-00068805V...
Compost bin: https://www.amazon.com/VIVOSUN-Tumbli...
Red Wriggler Worms: https://www.amazon.com/Uncle-Jims-Wor...
Shovel: https://www.amazon.com/Hooyman-Short-...
Garden Fork: https://www.amazon.com/Truper-30299-S...

Chapters
00:00 Why Clay Soil is Too Dense & How to Fix
02:23 Clay is Alkaline
03:25 How to Tap Into Clay’s High Nutrient Potential
06:06 Aerating Clay Soil with Worms
07:10 How to Prevent Clay for Cracking and Swelling
08:20 Watering to Reduce Pooling and Evaporation
08:41 How Chickens Help Clay Soil
09:03 Let Cover Crops Work Your Clay in the Offseason
09:34 Don’t Repeat Every Year

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