Anyone ever use red soil for growing ?

the soil here ( in eastern TN. ) is red clay, turns into vicious, viscous, sticky mud. if you try to grow in it, you'd have to add a ton of peat, sand, wheat straw, compost...people do it, there are a lot of folks that have nice gardens in the area, but it takes some work. if you're going to use it in containers, i'd definitely add compost, maybe some perlite, some sand, a little peat....dolomite lime...it's doable, but not easy
 
Yeah I think it's the same shit you guys talking about. This is what they call red soil and the other they say it's peat moss but it looks more like coco to me.
 

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that looks more like soil than coco or pet........just for reference can you put some in you hand and get a better picture....jc..

syria/lebanon border region.....hmmm.... Beka Valley ???
 
Green Refuge said:
Yeah im near the valley. This they say is peat moss
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nice stuff......it can be done but like the others here have mentioned your gonna need to aquire more stuff to help it....and it also depends on how your gonna grow it too....in the ground or in a pot....
 
I know they use this soil to grow the shitty stuff they grow outdoors here but I got some good seed from the states I'm not trying waste it on mud. Also never seen organic fert that look like fish food. Dude gave me this for free.
 

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Green Refuge said:
I know they use this soil to grow the shitty stuff they grow outdoors here but I got some good seed from the states I'm not trying waste it on mud. Also never seen organic fert that look like fish food. Dude gave me this for free.
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very cool........no offense....but ewwwww......that looks like it needs to mixed with some manure or something.....
 
Green Refuge said:
Yeah im near the valley. This they say is peat moss
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that does indeed look like coco coir to me, maybe they just don't realize there is any difference...and there is a lot of difference, but either would help that soil, which looks very much like the soil here...minus a few dozen rocks of varying size. some coarse builders sand, some perlite, some compost, some lime...you could work with it...
 
BudmanTX said:
very cool........no offense....but ewwwww......that looks like it needs to mixed with some manure or something.....
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None taken. Everything here looks like garbage. God bless the US of A.
I used to spend an hour at the grow shop cuz there's so much good shit to pick from.
 
Green Refuge said:
I know they use this soil to grow the shitty stuff they grow outdoors here but I got some good seed from the states I'm not trying waste it on mud. Also never seen organic fert that look like fish food. Dude gave me this for free.
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i have no fucking idea what's in that bag, i tried to look it up, found nothing.
the stuff in your hand looks like leaf mould that's started to break down, which would be a good thing to add to a compost pile, if that is what it is.
 
Cycad said:
I would just go soilless medium and do flood and drain.
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it might be easier to use the coco he can get that they're calling peat moss and use hempy buckets, a lot more stable than dwc, very little hardware and no pumps required. as long as you have a stable source of coco...
 
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