Beginner Gardening: What to do with heavy, lumpy clay soil, 0 by TNGardener2008

TNGardener2008 wrote:
Where I live in Tennessee, we have red clay and ROCKS. I mean tons of rocks, big rocks- small rocks, and everything in between. It is so bad that I can't even dig my own holes, so hubby has to do all my diggin- that is a first for me. What soil we have is red clay. Before moving to Tennessee, I came from North Carolina- where the soil is much, much different. So what I do is remove all of the rocks I can, then mix in with my clay some topsoil, a little sand, and well rotted manure. It seems to do pretty well, everything I have planted (roses, crepe myrtles, shrubs, tiger grasses, and carnations) are really beautiful and thriving.