Fun thread time! Where do you live & what's your soil like?
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Anonymous
| We live very near rock creek park in brightwood and we have dry rocky stuff on top and red or yellow sandy clay underneath. |
Anonymous
| clay. Nothing but clay. I should be a potter and not a gardener. |
Anonymous
| VA - clay. |
Anonymous
| Upper Montgomery County. I live in an old house, and I think it's probably the original topsoil. |
Anonymous
| AU Park--dark, beat to hell, no tilth, silt (. I have supplemented with compost and lime and dolomite and sand and high priced commercial compost and I am just done, done done. I think the WWII do gooders exhausted the soil with Victory gardens and all that artificial fertilizer. |
Anonymous
| Western Fairfax -- red clay. But I think it's actually pretty good for growing things, though shoveling can be difficult. |
Anonymous
Interesting! Us too! We have some hardy vegetables that are doing well in our clay, and shoveling is a nightmare. |
Anonymous
| had the soil tested and the pH is 5! Planted some blueberry bushes over the weekend. |
Anonymous
| Clay - north silver spring (colesville). The tomatoes we planted last year were very acidic tasting. I'm doing it all in pots this year. |
Anonymous
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Red clay originally. We brought in a huge amount of potting soil when the house was built and during the first 6 years, mulched with compost as opposed to mulch. While we don't have the rich, New England soil that I grew up with, we do have reasonable soil that will support lots of plants.
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Anonymous
| ^^^I think that's the first time I've ever heard anybody describe New England soil as "rich". |
Anonymous
Really? |
Anonymous
| AU park - clay |
Anonymous
| City of Fairfax - we mulch our leaves in the fall and spread hardwood mulch in the spring. Top layers are great but below that is CLAY. |
Anonymous
Yes, really. Thin and rocky are the usual adjectives. |