Canadian Gardening: New gardens, new soil: CLAY!, 1 by andycdn

andycdn wrote:
I coped with minimal effort by digging in a few bags of composted manure (from Loblaws, and it contained weed seeds -- not composted enough or hot enough). I'm not planning to stay here past next spring, so I decided not to invest time, energy, money etc. into the soil. Hating the lawn, but it's that kind of neighbourhood. Most of my plantings have been in containers where I can control the soil, but I did plant some pole beans, chard and tomatoes.

The biggest problem has actually been earwigs, which are even eating my brugmansias. Wretched, destructive, hideous creatures.

Thanks for your advice, everyone.

Andrew

PS I went on a cruise in April and took a shore excursion in Roatan, Honduras, to the botanical gardens and a bird and butterfly sanctuary. Here's a photo of a flower I couldn't identify -- looked like a mallow-family but hairy. I'm in the process of putting all of my cruise pix on flickr, so if you're interested, let me know and I'll send you the link. --A