Some advice please. I live in Regina Sask on the praries. In the spring I want to put in a lawn not sure if it will be sod or seeded approx. 500 sq ft. The base soil is pure sand very fine sand when it rains in a matter of minutes it is dry. I was planning on laying down a bed of yellow clay and then top soil. How deep should the clay be and how deep should the top soil be. Or is there a better way of doing this. Thanks for any info.
Thankyou for the reply. The soil on the lot is pure sand and it goes down at least 10 feet so I will have to add to the top of the lot but I don't know how much yellow clay to add before I add the top soil. When it rains the ground dries up very fast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loam Loam is what you want. Around my area if you add sand to our limey clay it will harden to a brick in dry weather.
