I have clay soil in Jiggs. I have a large yard and buying soil additives is to expensive. I've used a lot of sand (from the local sand pit and they delivered) and compost and just worked it into the ground with our rototiller. I also use fall leaves and compost to mix in the garden beds in the fall. For flower beds in my grass, I dug up the grass sod and flipped the grass sod back into the flowerbed with the grass facing down and then back filled any holes with compost and added a couple of inches more of compost to the top of the grass sod and smoothed it out. I did this last fall with the thought that the grass would decompose and I wouldn't waste any soil from the diggings. The flowerbed soil looks good. It worked!!! You can also check with the Reno coop. extension/4H office they may know of horse and cattle owners that want to get rid of their manure. Compost that with some grass clippings, leaves and old hay and your clay soil will be long gone. Sorry I'm so windy with my reply. Hope I've helped! Val

Thank you so much valree3. That's basically what I've been doing, but I'm new enough to gardening that I was hoping I would learn some tricks. I never thought to call the Reno co-op est/4H office though, because you're right, purchasing things to amend with can get costly.