Beginner Gardening: super soil not so super?, 1 by jojob

jojob wrote:
Thank you so much Diana for your fabulous investigative work. You're good, and so right. I know how important organic matter is, and while there's some in this mix, it doesn't hold together, the texture is very sandy.

Unfortunately, they've dumped a really huge amount of the material in beds that cover the perimeter of my back yard. I took a photo of the kind of plastic shards (upper right) and plastic bag remnants in the mixture. I will talk to the landscaper, armed with the information you've given me, and I hope that he will remedy this mess. My stomach is in knots.

I have a question about the sand. I've read that adding sand to clay soil makes it even worse, like cement. And this sand is very, very fine, which would seem like the worst kind to add to clay. If he refuses to take this stuff away, would adding manure and organic matter remedy the sand problem?

This message was edited Sep 28, 2014 10:21 AM