Ways To Improve Clay Soil In The Flower Garden
What Is Clay Soil? As a component of soil, clay is inert; it is a mineral rather than the product of decayed organic material. Two features of clay contribute to its behavior in the garden: the size and shape of the particles. Whereas a grain of sand may be roughly 2 millimeters in size, a particle of clay is only about .002 millimeters in size. Furthermore, clay particles fit together in a sheet-like structure, giving soils with a high clay content the ability to retain water....