yea, I'd say it's clayish. gets really tough and hard to work with in the summer months.none, is that stuff clay
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I know you can grow in that 'cause I seen a picture of a guys grow in South America with just red clay soil plants were stunted in height though. I'd dig down a couple of feet and loosen the sub soil down below with a spading fork (looks like a extra heavy duty pitch fork) add some pulverized gyproc (gypsum lime AKA Calcium Sulfate) that improves drainage in clay soil, about a handful to a hole. Backfill with your native soil and mix in whatever decomposed organic mater that's close by like rotten logs or leaf mold maybe some more gypsum too if you use a lot of leaf mold as it's acidic.
Hahaha I'm not using the red dirt as my soil. I'm hauling in a pre-mix soil with all kinds of goodies already in it, but I was thinking because the ground will be so hard at the bottom of my holes, the water could just sit and become stagnate.
not really. As long as your not in a low spot the soil WILL drain just not as fast as sandy soil.
I talked to a guy at the place where I'm buying my soil, and he said he's had best results mixing half pre mix soil with the native red dirt which makes the roots stronger and expand more and in turn, making the plants grow bigger.
digging 3 ft holes without the dirt being saturated for a couple weeks, and a ton of rocks under the top dirt makes for a nice day of digginggood if you can reuse the same spots again. I suggest you try a little thinner blend on a hole or two and see how that works for future grows.
