Ohio River Valley Gardening: Amending Soil, 1 by Badseed

Badseed wrote:
Shoot! I meant to say something about gravel above and I guess the kids interrupted. I had built them a play ground so many years ago and filled it with pea gravel. When we took the playground back out, I was forced to leave the gravel and work it around. I have to say the plants that went in there did very well. As I planted, I did add it compost/peat/topsoil and mixed it right into the gravel which was on top of and mixed into clay. The area had good drainage and allowed the plants to spread freely. If you have seen my pond pics from the last two years-all the plants around it were growing in about a 1/2 pea gravel mix. They did okay. LOL