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RickCorey said:I used to agree with you - amend, amend, always amend! At least for shrubs and small plants. Then I kept reading and "they" always seemed to say that, if you can't amend your whole yard, don't amend for trees.

Yup.
Was me...
I'd dig up the entire yard, plant a vegetable garden.
Plant the ginko tree(s) in the veggie garden next year.

Seems to me that's the only way you are going to provide decent drainage.

We have to remember that the tree has to send it's roots out of the planting hole... And in clay soil.... Nobody is going to dig a wide enough planting hole.