Comments on: What to do with yellow clay

Question: What to do with yellow clay

destro — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:36:53 -0800

What can I do with a large quantity of yellow clay?

I have a number of piles of yellow clay from digging up the earth around my house for a flower garden that's not easy to dispose of. I could separate it out into lots of garbage bags or pay somebody to haul it off. Is there another way I could reuse this stuff? Does it have a particular usefulness?

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:48:34 -0800

Mix it with straw and build a cob oven.

By: reklaw

reklaw — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:54:24 -0800

Make little sculptures?

By: MonkeySaltedNuts

MonkeySaltedNuts — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:17:38 -0800

I used garden clay to plaster the inside of a hole I dug to become a small fish pond. It made a nice smooth stable surface to lay the liner against.

By: unSane

unSane — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:34:20 -0800

Find some kids on bikes and give it to them to buid dirt jumps with. You'll be amazed how happy this makes them.

By: Pollomacho

Pollomacho — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:07:01 -0800

Mix it with some sand and compost and make really nice garden soil?

Depending on what you want to grow in the soil you can add a little lime or gypsum to the mix. Lime for grass or veggies, gypsum for azaleas and other acid freaks.

By: singingfish

singingfish — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:25:37 -0800

make mud bricks?

By: Katravax

Katravax — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:52:22 -0800

Lawn art Pac-man.

By: sculpin

sculpin — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:41:30 -0800

If you're interested in making an oven, Kiko Denzer's book Build Your Own Earth Oven is worth checking out. Denzer is a sculptor who works with earth -- tiles, walls, ovens, etc.