Our clay soil here holds water very well but it also does not give it up easily. A normal summer will see cracks close to three feet deep and an inch or so wide but if you dig post holes often times less then 6in down the clay coming out of the hole will be wet enough to make a ball out of.
Keeping it worked up is the only way to keep it pliable and more of a loam. I actually watched a rain storm dump a lot of water fast and it ran under the tilled ground and came up at the East end of the garden. It was following the plow pan and it looked really cool, like an underground river.
Keeping it worked up is the only way to keep it pliable and more of a loam. I actually watched a rain storm dump a lot of water fast and it ran under the tilled ground and came up at the East end of the garden. It was following the plow pan and it looked really cool, like an underground river.