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[-] ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago

Daikon radishes. They grow in about anything and are especially good at clay busting. Grow a bunch then let them die back. Till them in and repeat until you get enough environment for the worms to take over the tilling. You can keep piling on radishes with something like clover and peas to add some nitrogen fixers. This is more a pasture revitalization technique, but if you don't mind being the weird radish guy for two or three years (depending on local conditions), you could do it on a smaller scale for a lawn

[-] GluWu@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It only rains like a dozen times a year. I've got some decent work on the ground for my garden, there's worms even! But I don't have the time or water to really do several acres. I just kill invasives and water the natives. I have tons of native desert wild flowers but I still need to kill like an acre of buffle grass(I think that's what its called, super hardy invasive African grass). I have a lot of native seeds for larger plants and trees that I'm going to sow and hope they grow after I leave.

[-] ThrowawaySobriquet@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Oh, so you're in a real live desert. That'd be way too much work. I bet you have some beautiful natives growing out there. Sucks about the grasses, tho. I have enough trouble with bermuda grass, I can only imagine the problems from something that could be invasive in a desert