Some plants actually thrive in hardpan lawns

Courier News (Elgin, IL) | April 11, 2007| | Copyright

Call it hardpan or caliche or adobe, but all these soils add up to dense ground. And water doesn't penetrate any better than it seeps through a red clay flower pot wall. Such is the fate of so many homeowners in regions where soils, or subsoil layers, are impervious to water. Or sometimes it's just part of a home site that's problematic. Cut building pads on hillsides may offer nothing but these dense, exposed subsoils. Even if you till them up and add organic matter, the soils may cement themselves back together again once you add water.

Many plants refuse to grow under these circumstances. ...

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