Looking for advice for my first outdoor grow zone 7b

[Rogue]

Clay Dominant Garden Soil Remediation

Welcome to the forum @RatsboggleBiological Good to have you and a very awesome first thread you made! Definitely covercrops, combined with a thin layer of woodchips / sawdust with on top of that a 2 to 5 cm (1 to 2 inch) layer of horse manure and ideally some various mycorrhizal mycelium sprinkled between the woodchips and manure. Elm oyster mycelium is very tough. Garden giants are extremely good at retaining water, very thick strands of mycelium. Alfalfa has stupid deep roots, up to…

This should work for almost any soil.
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