Aerify!

[palmazon]

Aerify! is a concentrated liquid application supposed to loosen clay soil; I'm interested in reading other testimonials from anyone here (Gilbert, AZ - I've already read yours).

Can anyone tell where I'm going with this?

choose one

[BS Man about Palms]

Ashtons! to hold off the sign!!  ???

[Tad]

why not just till in chingos of gypsum?

[MattyB]

Is the raised beds and mounds and hills idea out?  I have a hard time believing that this stuff could ever break up deep compacted coastal sandstone and clay.  Can you improve the existing soil the best you can, add drainage lines, and then bring in several feet of topsoil?  How deep do the roots need to go?  I don't know, I'm just thinking of ideas.  I know Ashton lives in a really nice area.  It'd be a shame to have to leave.  Good luck guys.

[MattyB]

Hey, I was looking at that hole you guys dug in the other thread with the bubblin crude in the bottom.  What if you constructed planting beds with leach pipe in the bottom and a sump pump?

Mud dosen't rock!

[Tad]

why not a program, of gypsum,and mulch,it will take a few years but the results are somthing else.

do a combination of a semi raised bed with a super fancy hole like in mattyb's article in the cal mag,

and continue on around it using mulch and applications of gypsum,you can get loads of free gypsum from construction sites, it's dry wall...till it in wait a bit and repeat, it would take say 2 applications a year 3 or 4 years, and youd have the most knocked out soil in the neighborhood, or just move!

[Scott]

I knew it had to be Ashton's. I remember your expedition into the caves.....

[palmazon]

We're mounding already (where possible) - we placed the Parajubaea on a sloped bed, put a crescent of rocks on the downhill side, and trenched a canal from the bottom of the planting hole to a french drain along the retaining wall.

In addition to planting palms, we're looking to drain the swamp that's his backyard lawn. Naturally, I'm skeptical of far-fetched claims, miracle solutions, etc., but someone steered us to this product and I thought maybe somebody here might have tried it.

[Kris]

Dear Daniel Lewis  

there is no substitute for hard work ! so do it in my way...

love,

Kris  

[MattyB]

Kris is that the hole where you bury dead palms?

[Kris]

(MattyB @ Sep. 06 2007,12:13)

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Kris is that the hole where you bury dead palms?

Dear Matty  

never ever say that my buddy,because iam not leaving any stone unturned to keep my babies growing there hale and healthy in years to come !  

Love,

Kris  

[Ashton]

Back to AERIFY!  Has anyone sprayed it on a lawn and had meaningful results? I will use gypsum on the new planting beds, but it would be nice if I could spray something onto the lawn to eventually get the yard to drain. I've got one of the nicest yards you would ever NOT want to walk on.

ashton

[eastern.nurseries]

Sucked in again.... basic chemistry will tell you that you would need an awful lot to improve even a few square yards of ground.

[Howeadypsis]

Lol i'd need a ton of that stuff for my garden!