Do you fight with heavy, clay soil? Well I have recently come across an organic, earth friendly way to help lighten up your soil.
One of the easiest ways to fix clay soil is to plant daikon radishes in it and leave them in the soil to grow to their maximum size. Don’t harvest at all but leave them to decompose. By the 3rd crop you can harvest if you want.
Cut the radishes off at the soil level and leave the tops laying on top of the soil where they grew. Plant inbetween with each successive crop. The third crop can be harvested, if you wish.
The radishes will break the soil a bit as they grow and with each successive crop the root does it deeper. As they decompose in the soil it becomes richer. The soil critters will mix all of that in with the existing soil giving you rich pliable soil to work with with not much work at all on your part. The hardest part is having patience to let nature work it’s magic.
