Like diamonds, clay soils are forever
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CORVALLIS – When you walk about your yard on a wet day, do your shoes stick in the mud? Could you make ceramic pots out of the soil in your garden? If the answers are yes to both, odds are you have clay soil, one of the biggest challenges for the home gardener. Clay soils in the Willamette Valley are the result of geologic actions that took place during the end of the last ice age – some 10,000-14,000 years ago, said Linda Brewer, senior faculty research assistant in Oregon State University’s College of Agricultural Sciences.
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After 2 years we could finally afford my wedding ring. No diamonds! My amazing husband picked it out by himself! He picked the crescent moons because of my new embrace of witchiness.
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Like diamonds, clay soils are forever