Carolina Gardening: HeavyClay Soil got you Crying/Complaining?, 0 by jlj072174

jlj072174 wrote:
That's pretty much what we did with the pond we put in last summer. My one friend used the auger to break up the clay, then a friend and I got in there with the shovels to remove the loose clay, and that's what we did for several hours -- alternate augering and shoveling. Hubby had 3 back surgeries last summer, so he wasn't a candidate for either chore. We used the removed clay from the pond hole to build up a small mound to put rock stream and waterfall into the pond.

I got a wild hair today, and put a small pond in my raised garden bed. I was going to covert the entire bed into a raised water garden, but I wasn't sure if it was strong enough or not. So half of it is a home to some of my elephant ears, and the other half has a couple bananas and the pond with a new lotus I picked up this afternoon. It's still a work in progress obviously, but I'm pleased with it so far. I'll add mulch tomorrow as well as a spitter to circulate the water a bit to help keep the skeeters down.