Somehow I let this thread slip through the cracks and never came back and saw all of the wonderful information you were all posting.
Thank you
@hazelnut and
@shadegardener for the comments and recommendations you posted. I have been interested in heugelkutlr (sp?...it's German, so I cut myself some slack on the spelling of it, LoL!), but it seems like such a daunting task. Between getting a giant log/tree in (and digging up the clay soil to get it in) and trying to approve the process with my HOA, I've lost a lot of motivation to try it. I think it would solve a lot of my current problems with my soil, but I'm not sure I want to deal with all of the problems it
creates! Maybe I need to re-research it and try convincing myself it isn't as difficult as it sounds.
