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Heavy Soils in Home Gardens
Clayey and other heavy soils may be made lighter by adding vegetable matter
such as manure, leaf mold, compost or cover crops; by digging or
plowing in late fall and leaving the clods or furrows unbroken for
the frost to break up; by adding sifted coal ashes, especially during
winter; by applications of "agricultural" (hydrated) lime or hardwood
ashes to the surface after plowing or digging but before harrowing
or raking (1 pound to 10 sq. ft.) and by mulches of fine materials
such as buckwheat hulls, commercial humus and shredded peat moss
during the growing season and turning them under when the ground
is dug or plowed.
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See Also: Soil Sterilizing
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