What's going on everyone? We're back again with another epic gardening podcast as always.

My name is Kevin. I'm the founder of epic gardening.com

and I'm here to deliver some hot and fresh gardening information right to your ear lobes and the rest of your ear

apparatus every single day. Today we are answering a question about clay soil. So specifically how do we remove clay from soil?

That was the question that was asked but I'm going to tackle it in a different

in a different manner. The way that I'm going to tackle it is actually asking the question,

how do you improve clay soil? So instead of removing the clay from the soil, how can we just

make the clay soil a little bit less clay heavy. Well the first question you need to

ask yourself is how do you even know how clay heavy your garden soil is? The quickest way and the most DIY way is if you just

grab a handful of your soil and you squish it hard between your hands and then open

your hands. And if you open your hands.

And if you open your hands and the soil ball that you formed does not crumble,

so if it squishes together, kind of like if you take the inside of a piece of bread and squish the piece of bread and the bread stays into a little ball.

If your soil does something similar to that, you probably have soil that is a bit too heavy in clay.

And as you know, clay heavy soils,

there's a couple problems that come with them.

First of all, it's very hard for water to drain out of a clay soil which means that the water

can just sit in the soil which may drown out the roots of your plants and

actually just kill them so obviously that's not good. So how do we

improve our clay soil? Well there's a lot of different ways. The first is

very simple, very classic, adding compost of any kind. So you can use a well-rotted manure, you can use

leaf hummus, hummus, you can do all sorts of different things. Standard compost

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