soil remained was clay — chunky
and brassy orange.
If I had added
water, I could have made pottery
right there.
It seemed sensible to loosen
up the soil by adding sand.
The
previous residents had a mammoth sandbox for their single
child and we had stored...
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soil remained was clay — chunky
and brassy orange.
If I had added
water, I could have made pottery
right there.
It seemed sensible to loosen
up the soil by adding sand.
The
previous residents had a mammoth sandbox for their single
child and we had stored the sand
in garbage cans to spread after
ice storms.
I dumped wheelbarrows-worth of sand into the pit.
It struck me that the soil was still
the wrong consistency, so I
added my entire compost pile,
about three wheelbarrows full.
I
was told later that clay and sand
is the formula for cement; without the compost, I would have
ended with an in-ground pool!
The Newsletter of The Ecological Landscaping Association Vol.
11, No.
4 Winter 2004-05
The No-Work
Garden .
.
.
well, less-work, anyhow
Y
ears ago, when I decided
that I needed a larger garden, I set out to dig up the
sunburned and thinly-covering
grass in the only sunny spot in
my small yard.
With visions of
perennials dancing in my head,
but very little knowledge, I set
out w
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