Star Wars Garden Gnome Cracked!

Mind the gap!

Just a moving painting to illustrate the challenge of gardening on compacted Tennessee clay 'soil' (subsoil?)

It looks from this icon similar nosotros hadn't had whatsoever pelting inward months.

But this is only what my soil looks similar if nosotros larn a twosome weeks amongst warm weather condition together with non much rain.

(This moving painting was taken most a twosome weeks ago. At the moment, much of the dorsum yard looks similar a shallow pond since we've had several days of difficult pelting amongst overflowing warnings across the area. But side past times side fourth dimension nosotros stimulate got a twosome weeks of dry out weather, it volition larn correct dorsum to this cracked look.)

Could I amend the heck out of it? Sure, but it would hold upwards back-breaking, soul-crushing, expensive, time-consuming together with ecologically-questionable.

Instead, I drive to abide by ultra-tough plants - many of them natives - capable of surviving together with fifty-fifty thriving inward this pottery material.

Ultimately, where the plants thrive, I abide by that the soil does ameliorate over time. Slowly. In a few hundred years of letting Nature locomote its magic, I mightiness stimulate got roughly prissy loam! 😉