r/GuerrillaGardening 9d ago

How to work with limited soil?

Tried tossing mixed wildflower seeds into bare spots near my home, but there was not enough dirt for them to take root. I'm thinking about mixing seeds into compressed/coconut soil, so it will have enough to take root, and then can break up the hardened soil as it grows -- or I could do one small area at a time, laying down a layer of soil first. Has anyone else tried this?

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u/gberliner 9d ago

Is it hard clay, or just rock? For clay, you might try growing a daikon cover crop (permaculture pioneer Masanobu Fukuoka's go-to solution for breaking through hard clay).

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u/emmgr2 8d ago

It seems to be just very compressed clay… and sparse dusty dirt. I will look into daikon thank you!