Fierce guard dog guarding quartz sand and organic compost. The slab for the garden shed is visible in the background.
I wouldn’t dare go near and that is my dog!
Lovely soil, 100% clay!
I have spread gypsum on most cracks in the soil in my yard, in 2 years be nice soil there I HOPE!
Tried to photograph the pegs and strings etc I set up to work out where the trees will go—doesn’t photograph well.
Soil looks dry—and cracked—but there has been rain there even in the time I have been here. Just clay being clay.
Any spare minute I have I am spreading gypsum on any cracks in the soil I spot. Start turning the clay into soil. At some time will need to get the front of the block ploughed and multiple bags of claybreaker spread.
In the back half of the block that has been done March 2017 but still rather heavy soil. As well as sand and compost I am adding gypsum and dolomite, turn clay into soil.
Later in the year will make mounds of loam where the trees will go, plant the trees and set up irrigation.
Be picking cherries next year with any luck. Better net the trees or the bloody birds will get the crop. Need to protect the trees against rabbits and possums too. Ah, relationships with the soil are not easy!
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