Soil Manufacture Soil Manufacture Gardeners have been exposed to unlimited explanations about the nature of soil and how to improve it with amendments. But what is the gardener to do whose property is on 27 foot of sand. Soil amendments will disappear like money in a wishing well.
Sand is a bottomless pit.
Similarly, gardeners who live on clay or mostly rock have difficulty incorporating the standard formula for amending the soil because their soils are very hard to work and even harder to mix with other materials. My own property is yellow clay. In the spring, it is soft mud, because it will not drain. In the summer, it may as well be granite. Until the first of June, seeds and transplants alike must be placed on the surface of the soil, then mounded over to cover, in order to avoid immediate rot.