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RickCorey said:>> Now, if I only had the guts to ask complete strangers to share their horse manure with me...

I understand, but maybe bring some cut flowers or vegetables with you when you ask. The promise of some potted-up seedlings next spring might go a long way towards motivating them.

>> Red Georgia clay, my friend...

So many people have a love-hate relattionship with their clay, or maybe hate-hate. But a Floridian said that clay is better than sand, because you can amend clay if you work at it long enough.

I remember reading used soil textbooks that praised clay as the source and buffer of mineral nutrients. Not even compost is as valuable for that as clay. It's a real mineral magnet or sponge, yet releases them again when they're needed.

I think everyone wants most, whatever they have least.
And appeciates least what they have most!

Well I grew up with red Ohio clay, so at least I feel at home. And I know that it needs to be amended, hence the beds that I was spot-composting.