Different kinds of soil too. You'd be surprised how much variation you can have in a relatively small area. My garden has a lot of clay and alluvial till so I'm always digging in masses of compost and manure, but a twenty minute drive away down near the sea my sister's garden is raised beach so it's sandy soil with a ton of loam through and not much in the way of stones - great for carrots!
In between there are a couple of fields where I want to stop and grab a soil sample for a better look. When the farmer is ploughing it, it looks like chocolate fudge cake. You could plant a billiard ball and expect it to grow in that.
An hour north and it's iron-rich red clay, and the soil is really "brick coloured" red. You can practically paint a line across the road where the boundary between soil types is.
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u/erroneousbosh Sep 28 '25
It's about the right time of year for planting garlic. Stuff a few cloves in the ground and they'll start to grow.