Need advice - I've made a big clay bowl mess

[tbk5]

If Easter is a hard date for happy wife, happy life, then consider sod after the sand/soil advice above.

 

[old and tired]

...but I believe all this rain is the KNEWNRML

Been up the road from you for 35+ years, this is the wettest on record. Not sure if this is the new normal but my guess is next year will be a drought!!! (based on my history here...) This too will pass...

 

[HawkinsHollow]

Been up the road from you for 35+ years, this is the wettest on record. Not sure if this is the new normal but my guess is next year will be a drought!!! (based on my history here...) This too will pass...

I am in a similar situation, in my wood lot. Maybe not quite as bad. Thanks for the question and answers.

On a sidenote: You NC boys are having a record wet year? It's kinda crazy because after 2 VERY wet winters the last two we are probably below average on rainfall and it is SOOOO nice. Not rubbing it in but I am just a little surprised our precip has been so different this year. We have been dodging a few big storms that either went north or south of us this year.

 

[jaxs]

Is sand not good to mix in with clay? I did that in Houston and it worked fairly well, but maybe an anomaly.

Like Jeff said "depend's on soil chemistery". I have land less than 25 miles apart that have destintly different clays. One is red and sand favorablly inhance's plant growth by alowing oxygen better penitration. The other is black and sand make's it twice as hard when dry. Red is slick and slippery when wet. Black is gooy and sticky when wet. So sticky at a certain water content it will stick to and ball up on tractor tires until the fenders can be bent or torn off. Tractors picking up hay then coming out on to paved roads often shed chunks the size of 5 gallon buckets making for a real traffic haxard. It take's a special farmer(not me) to row crop the black stuff.

 

[mred2]

I am in a similar situation, in my wood lot. Maybe not quite as bad. Thanks for the question and answers.

On a sidenote: You NC boys are having a record wet year? It's kinda crazy because after 2 VERY wet winters the last two we are probably below average on rainfall and it is SOOOO nice. Not rubbing it in but I am just a little surprised our precip has been so different this year. We have been dodging a few big storms that either went north or south of us this year.

I think it all came South to me. It is wet and muddy.

 

[kthompson]

snaphooker I agree don't beat yourself up. How do you think most of the advice given you was obtained?

 

[mscheeer772]

We won't see the ground until then,maybe.Ice out by May 1st,maybe. Grass by June 15th, again, maybe.
As Harvey use to say "it ain't nothin but a thang."
I'd suggest trying to convince your wife you need a couple new attachments.
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