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Comments (4)(If so, I wonder what's with the pale mauve background color . . .) Hi Jaxondel, The mauve background means it was posted in the gallery section. Here's how to switch to the gallery: Look just above the list of forum postings and you'll see: On-Topic Discussions [Switch to: Gallery] Click Gallery to go to that section of the forum and look at lots of beautiful pictures of forum members' roses. To get back, just click the Discussions link....See MoreI Got My Soil Test Results Back. What Do the Numbers Mean?
Comments (12)"just me 6" ... I agree with Kimmsr that you want to get the lime in there to start working, BUT I don't know that I think doing so before the builder levels things out makes sense. I just picture you distributing the lime well across the top of the soil, and the bulldozer coming and scraping the top 3 inches away here and filling in a dip there ... resulting in a really uneven distribution of the lime. If I were you I'd wait. If I read you right, we're just talking about waiting until Tuesday or Wednesday; I think waiting a few days is worthwhile to increase the chances you get your lime distributed pretty evenly. As to improving your "nasty sticky clay soil" ... lime will fix the pH, but I don't think it will affect the texture. You want better "tilth" ... not sure if a search on that word here will bring up articles that will help. Adding lots of organic material is the single best way to improve your tilth, for a variety of reasons. First, just mechanically, having lots of bits of organic stuff in between the sticky bits separates them and lets air and water in. Next, the soil beasties that are going to eat that organic stuff will, in the process, glue some of the clay particles together into aggregates (bigger bits), which tend to permit air and water to penetrate around/between them. Do you have a source of free municipal mulch? By that, I mean ground up leaves that a nearby city collected in the fall, let sit over the winter, and puts out for you to take the following year? That can be good stuff or it can be garbage-y. I have a couple of cities around me to choose from, and have a clear preference for one over another.... Alternately, if you're willing and able to spend, get a truckload of compost from a local nursery. Go there first to see what they'll sell you. My nursery sells it for $35/yard, and they're selling pretty nice stuff (ground a lot finer than the municipal free stuff, looks more decomposed, maybe is in a more managed pile over the winter?). Till it in to your soil after the builder and before you first plant. Then add more to the perennial beds. And keep adding more to any plants that can be mulched (nearly everything except grass) forever more. (Wood and bark mulches last longer, but ground up leaves feed the soil better.) By the way, don't let anyone sell you topsoil. You have plenty of the mineral component of soil already. You want more of the organic component, and that's the only part it makes any sense to pay anyone to haul to you. Don't let them talk you into a mix of compost and topsoil either ... that would be better for their profit, but not better for you. (UNLESS you have a shallow area you want to fill ... but then, the builder should fix that, right?) I know, I'm not giving a lot of advice on the soil test. But you asked how to make sticky clay better, and in my flower beds, compost and leaf mulch are what does it. - LCPW p.s. On the "posey power" ... hard to say without knowing what it is, and some facts about what KIND of clay you have. I have learned here that one kind of clay actually can be broken up well by a chemical additive that nurseries sell. But many many folks have asked about it and knowledgeable folks here have said, "you're in a part of the country with clay that won't be helped by that in the least". I'd say don't do it until you know more....See MoreWhy did my post about an EZ cloner get deleted?
Comments (3)Neither. Somehow they still have links messed up from the server move earlier this year. If you get a "Whoops" message, that usually comes from the URL pointing to "forums2.gardenweb.com". If that is the case, go into the URL Address bar in your browser, put your cursor behind the '2' and hit backspace. The URL should look like "forums.gardenweb.com". You can then hit return and you should get to the right page. Sometimes it is the opposite, the "Whoops" URL is "forums.gardenweb.com" and you have to add a 2 so that the URL is "forums2.gardenweb.com"....See Moredid you delete my post???
Comments (7)Considering that I just wrote a lengthy response, clicked on the link to read the rules for the forum and didn't realize it DID NOT come up in a new window causing me to lose everything, it very well may have been my fault initially. However, I do believe I have seen moderator intervention before so that's all I was trying to determine... did they do it again? I think they would have emailed me under normal circumstances if that were the case so it was probably me. Still, I got the word out in this thread. :-) I don't believe that TOFGA is a competing forum and did consider that beforehand. I see these as complementary forums in that, the more that one succeeds, the greater the overall interest in gardening which benefits everyone. Anybody here ONLY rely on GardenWeb for your information??? I viewed the post more as a public service announcement for the folks in Texas. Brad...See Morecarabubble
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