Morning Glories: My Morning Glory Adventures continued.., 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
Becky.. I have hard red clay.. I have ammended it with leaves year after year, sand , gravel, gypsum, peat, coffee grounds, more coffee grounds, and alot of bags of potting soil.. I still have hard red clay out front in the yard, and to the south , and along the south fence is getting better.. I lay down the leaves and twist it in, sand it, twist it some more, lay cardboard over it, and dump top soil mixed with compost ( leaves) and sand and coffee grounds over and over I do this every year then twist it in with the claw when it rains.. it seems to work.. I know I have sweat alot and hurt alot doing this.. the clay has cracked my basement walls beyond repair, and when it rains it swells, and when it is too dry it shrinks and gets cracks.. here is a morning glory bloom I made out of clay last month or the month before as I was trenching the south garden edge..I had an idea of making these with seeds ( real) in the middle, packaging them with a pic of the plant and giving them out as presents , just put outside and let melt down with seed inside, ( water and rain) and let nature take its course.. what do you think of that idea? LOL

This message was edited Jun 11, 2009 10:33 PM