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new garden clay soil

Posted by carolinel sunshine coast (My Page) on
Sun, Feb 22, 09 at 18:31

wandering what to plant in the garden of our new home, the soil is mostly clay we have existing palms on soth side of house there is an area approximately 6 meters from back of house we wish to plant out it has a fence /block wall behind it so the garden woul be on the side facing west but would have the house near by it is on a downwood slope so we are getting run off from council strip behind .we would also like to put a hedge on the flip side of this fence facing east we were thinking aussie boomers but will they handle the soil or what can we do to improve it we have already put gypsum down help would be appreciated thanks


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RE: new garden clay soil

g'day caroline,

my suggestion cut to the chase and go for raised beds, that way you need to be little concerned with the type of soil you now have, and that will all change in time. when you plant trees, requiring you dig a hole, consider the drainage requirements of the tree ie.,. citrus like it well drained so you need to create a raised planting position. if you like i could discuss this further by e/mail contact through our web site.

buy a bag of good gypsum from the produce agency you will need to use lots of it.

not many of the old hands seem to visit here much nowadays for me that is maybe once a week.

len

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