Browse Forums Landscape & Garden Design 1 Nov 17, 2010 3:43 pm Some people don't have time to do the job right the first time, but seem to have plenty of time to fix their mistakes. Build Thread Re: Improving Clay Soil immediately after build 3Nov 17, 2010 5:19 pm 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Improving Clay Soil immediately after build 7Nov 18, 2010 11:57 am Some people don't have time to do the job right the first time, but seem to have plenty of time to fix their mistakes. Build Thread Re: Improving Clay Soil immediately after build - Fu??? 14Nov 19, 2010 7:43 am Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Re: Improving Clay Soil immediately after build - Fu??? 16Nov 19, 2010 8:31 am Current status: Busy making the house our home Built PD Francis 29 on our 576m2 block at Reflections in Tarneit Reflections Estate Thread Our Build Thread Re: Improving Clay Soil immediately after build - Fu??? 17Nov 19, 2010 8:35 am After 4 years - we're in! Re: Improving Clay Soil immediately after build - Fu??? 18Nov 19, 2010 11:55 am Richo - you shouldn't have to bring in topsoil as you will be making very rich soil on site out of your clay. Search "clay' with author Fu and Redman in this forum. Checkout redman's post here viewtopic.php?f=19&t=36663&hilit=clay If you aren't ready to plant out yet then cover with tree lopper mulch but as your soil improves stuff wil start growing in it so regularly weed out seedlings or spray out with roundup. Make sure you get them before they seed. My understanding is that zeolite and spongolite and bentonite clay are something of great benefit to our WA sands which cannot hold onto moisture and nutrients at all, but probably unneccesary in clay soils, in fact may have no benefit at all. Would be good if someone can clarify if this is incorrect. cheers I've dug some footings to embed a post anchor into. My holes are around 450mm deep which I'll put a 200mm stirrup into. The bottom of these holes seem firm enough. … 0 3293 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 36901 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 29919 |