You can grow vegetables, berries and ornamental plants without much hassle even if you got a plot with clay soil. Choose a few crops that thrive and bear fruit in fairly heavy soil.
Juniper
The culture is absolutely undemanding to the fertility of the soil substrate. Good drainage is much more important to her. Juniper responds poorly to stagnant groundwater and soil compaction.
If the soil is too heavy, it thaws late in the spring. In this case, unfavorable conditions are created for the juniper.
The green part of the bush may start to burn. Therefore, the planting must be shaded from direct sunlight.
It is easy to make the substrate looser by adding sand, straw or some sawdust into it. But keep in mind that woodworking waste contributes to the rapid acidification of the soil.
Potatoes
Growing large and healthy potatoes on clay soil is not too difficult. At the end of the season, the site is dug up and manure and peat are introduced into the soil.
Methods for improving soil structure for potatoes:
- add broken sifted brick to the garden bed;
- apply rotted organic matter;
- use siderates.
When planting, ash is added to each hole. This method protects potatoes from pests. After heavy rains, the bushes slightly huddle and loosen the soil between them.
Cabbage
Broccoli, cabbage and Brussels sprouts will feel great on loam. The soil substrate in the garden bed is enriched with compost at the end of the season.
White cabbage prefers well-fertilized, slightly acidic or neutral soil. A mixture of humus with ordinary garden soil, to which a little wood ash is added, is suitable.
Plants are watered twice a week. This is quite enough: loam holds water for a long time.
Lilac
For planting lilacs in the garden, it is advisable to choose a gentle slope with good lighting. The culture has certain requirements for the soil:
- moderate moisture;
- medium lightness;
- neutral acidity.
If the soil is too light, forest, clay or black soil is specially added to it. Therefore, fertile loams for lilacs will come in handy. If the soil is too heavy, it is lightened by the introduction of peat or humus.
Currant
Perennial loves moist soil, but it must be planted above the water table. Currant bushes can be placed along the path, they are very decorative thanks to the carved leaves and shiny ripening berries.
The plantings should be illuminated by the sun all day, so the harvest will be plentiful.
The soil for this culture is preferable loose, the acidity is neutral. Light loams are perfect. Soil nutrition is very important. The currants are fertilized at the end of the season with rotted manure.
Geranium
This horticultural crop prefers fertile, well-drained soil. When planting, compost and humus are introduced into the hole. Then, for a long time, the seedling does not need to be fertilized.
Geranium actively builds up green mass and does not need additional feeding. The soil around the stem is mulched with wood chips.
Flowers are planted on alpine hills and rockeries as a ground cover plant. Wild gardens are very popular among designers, where geraniums play one of the main roles.
Peas
This crop grows without problems on clay soil, yielding a good harvest from year to year. In addition, peas enrich the soil with nitrogen, phosphorus and other useful substances.
It is even able to change the structure of the soil substrate, making the too heavy clay area suitable for planting vegetables, berry bushes and ornamental plants.
Peas are often planted with potatoes, in which case the tubers become noticeably larger.
