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Hey, good morning, it's Jason again here at Fraser Valley Rose farm, and I wanted to talk today about clay and heavy soil

I'm talking about amending soil and what I'll discuss here could probably be apply it across a wide range of soils, but

Heavy soil is what I have. So heavy soil is basically what I'm going to talk about

I made a video maybe a year ago on how to do the Jar test to figure out what your proportions of the

minerals components in your soil are whether they're

Sand silt or clay and from that test you can determine what actual soil you have and that's a great test and I really do

suggest you do it but it's just for your information because you probably already know you have heavy soil and

the

Question that follows that is what do I do about it? That's the that's the main thing you'll want to know

so today I'm going to go through some samples of soil from my garden that I've

Amended over time some less, some more

I'll show you how it that affects it over time, especially what the wood chips do to it

I'll show you some amendments that you can do to make your soil a little better for a wider range of plants

Okay, I'll try to keep a steady hand as I show you these samples from my garden this first one here

This is the top end and this is the bottom end is

basically my unimproved soil you can see from the

The way that the Spade cut through it it kind of is smooth. And yeah, you know, that's heavy

It's got a clay content that's probably just shy of classifying it a clay soil

But I haven't added anything to this on a regular basis. The only thing I've left is the crop residue at the top there

So you can see there's a little bit of organic matter at the top. But basically this is the unimproved condition of my soil and

yeah, it's


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