Adding Sand to the Garden Bed.

http://www.durgan.org/URL/?AENBM 5 September 2009 Adding Sand to the garden bed.

The garden bed is a clay base, mixed with plenty of compost over the last five years. By inspection I felt the structure was too tight and compacted too much, so decided to a add a layer of mason or play sand. This modified the soil to make it more friable.

The sand was worked into the underlying soil using the Honda FG110 minitiller and raked smooth. The area will be seeded with double cut red annual clover as a Winter cover crop, which will be rototilled into the soil in the Spring.