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baymule

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Welcome to the forum. I'm just north of Tyler, so Howdy Neighbor! Our soil is sugar sand, like a Florida beach-but without the ocean. We moved here 6 years ago and it has been a LOT of work to turn sugar sand into fertile garden ground.

I was raised mostly in Houston, on black gumbo clay. When wet, it stuck to my feet, making clay clown feet, when dry, the ground cracked open wide enough to step in and twist an ankle. My Daddy was a gardener and always had a garden. I lived in Livingston for over 30 years and dealt with black clay there.

The best thing for your clay is organic material and lots of it. You can bust it open with long root radishes, let them bloom and die back. The organic material they leave will help your soil.

do you have chickens or any livestock?
 
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