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Clay Soil Gardening: Australasian Edition
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For many gardeners, trying to establish a garden on clay soil is a difficult and costly exercise. Many plants which do well in other conditions die or fail to thrive when confronted with heavy clay.
This informative guide to gardening on clay soils will help save you time and money. It provides specific information on planting, watering and mulching plants in clay conditions and lists both ornamental and edible plants which can grow in clay, with tips on how to grow them successfully.
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Michael Carr
I'm a freelance researcher and part-time writer from New Zealand. My writing interests include psychology, mental performance issues and gardening.My writing aim is to produce concise, down-to-earth publications about under-explored subjects, and I believe that concise e-books and articles are a great medium for this.
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Clay Soil Gardening - Michael Carr
Clay Soil Gardening
Australasian Edition
By Michael Carr
Published by Michael Carr at Smashwords
Copyright 2012 Michael Carr
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Contents
Introduction
Improving Clay Soils
Plant Husbandry
Ornamental Plants for Clay Soils
Australian Native Trees and Shrubs
New Zealand Native Trees and Shrubs
Introduced Trees and Shrubs
Other Plants for Clay Soils
Edible Gardening on Clay Soils
Going Further
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Introduction
Next to inadequate watering, water logging or wet feet
is the most common reason why garden plants in temperate regions die or fail to thrive, and water logging occurs most frequently on heavy clay soils. Such soils can present a big (and costly) challenge to the uninitiated. This doesn’t mean gardeners confronted with heavy clay can’t create great gardens, but it does mean they need no-nonsense advice on how to deal with the unique challenges of gardening on clay soils and information on which plants are suitable for clay gardens.
Properties of Clay Soils
Unmodified heavy clay soils can be grey, yellow-brown or red in colour and are familiar to gardeners in many parts of eastern Australia and New Zealand. They are slow to drain following heavy rain, with grey clays tending to have the worst drainage problems (grey coloration indicates a lack of oxygen in the soil). Clay soils also have a habit of swinging from one extreme to the other – wet, sticky and heavy in winter, to hard as rock and impossible to dig in summer. Since unmodified clay soils have poor drainage, they're also slow to warm up in spring, resulting in slower plant growth and poor germination of seeds. The plus side of clay soils is they retain moisture in summer and, compared with free-draining sandy soils, have high nutrient levels. This is because better-drained sandy soils tend to lose more water-soluble nutrients through rain and watering. To assess
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