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0 pointshinkley5y ago0 comments

David has a guest video by a lady working above hardpan clay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goUfl4x8URc

Essentially all of the permaculture advice for breaking up clay appears to be failing on her hardpan, so she's started using broadforking, which is a sort of compromise between tilling and building soil from the top down. The speaker in this video is being a little more aggressive with the broadfork than most people suggest. The idea is to open the subsoil without blending the upper layers together, resulting in the organic matter-consuming bacterial bloom you get with tilling.

One variant of keylining accomplishes a similar trick on an even smaller scale: you put one long slice into the ground. Water and organic matter seep into that cut and fan out from there.

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thatcat5y ago

There are also "subsoilers" that you can pull behind a tractor that kind of lifts up the soil 36" deep and then drops it creating breaks.

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0 pointshinkley5y ago0 comments

David has a guest video by a lady working above hardpan clay:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goUfl4x8URc

One variant of keylining accomplishes a similar trick on an even smaller scale: you put one long slice into the ground. Water and organic matter seep into that cut and fan out from there.