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Gardening Tip from Chinona!
12 years ago
A warm, composty welcome to you!!!
Here is a gardening tip from 
that was sent here via a note!
"If you've got really clay based soil that's hard to dig up to plant other veggies and the like a good plan is to gather up leaves and grass clippings scrape off at most about an inch of soil in one area of the garden put the clippings/leaves there and then sprinkle said inch of soil on top to hold it in place making a few slightly denser patches of soil. Then plant a few pumpkins/squashes/cucumbers in that area in the soil you put on top.
By time the plant has grown enough to get past the soil the clippings will have decomposed just enough that the roots will rip it to shreds very quickly and turn it into soil. Repeat for a few years until you have a nice base (you can use the stocks from the plant itself the next year as well!) and then move the pumpkin/squash/cucumber to another area and repeat."
Thanks very much for the tip!!!
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bloodwriter
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That's awesome advice! My stepdad plants a lot of cucumbers in his gardens and we live in Northern Colorado so a lot of our soil is very clay-y.
