All clay here. In fact, this 15 acres was a brick yard many, many years ago. Huge hollows in the surroundings indicate where clay was extracted for bricks. When we ditched an area for drainage a few years ago, an art teacher was thrilled to get the blue clay to use for sculpting. The constant use of compost has made some of the land fairly friable, but it’s a struggle.
In one of these hollows, hubby would love to fashion a root cellar, but I think that’s too large a task to attempt with all the other projects we have going.
Years ago, when we had pigs, we must have built their pen over the brick yard, as they rooted out scads of old bricks which I salvaged for walkways.
>>>Years ago, when we had pigs, we must have built their pen over the brick yard, as they rooted out scads of old bricks which I salvaged for walkways.<<<
Amazing what pigs will root up... Used to have Poland Chinas and they uncovered quite a few unusual things.
Sorry to see you are getting more rain (along with us too) again today... That clay sure does hold the moisture.