I recently moved into a new house with a garden and am super keen to start growing veg, but the thing is that the soil here is clay af.
How should I go about making the ground more amenable to the growing of veg.
I dug a spot out today and seived the soil for rocks and to break it it up, and mixed in general purpose compost and worm castings and innoculated the seeds I planted with mycorrhizae.
Reading online it seems like people advise against digging gardens, but I honestly can't see how life could penetrate the soil here once you get 6 inches or so down. Going to try daikon in the area I have tilled, and compare it to the neglected part of the soil. I need to start a compost bin and I am considering bokashi to accelerate incorporation of organic material into the bed.
>>2926 >HORSE SHIT LAD - buy some sacks of manure and dig it in.
Most stuff from the shop is pre-rotted, if you're buying it raw/fresh then it'll need to rot to not burn your plants when it goes in.
You would be better off double digging it rather than using a cultivator, because that can cause a hard pan of soil. Again adding manure or some straw will help with drainage.
>>2930 I'm not privy to the upcoming weather, but I know where I am there has been unseasonably late ground frosts still. I have held off on putting out my runner beans because of this.
>>2956 Don't know what the middle one is, but the long leaves surrounding it are wild rocket, and you definitely want that to grow - tastes very nice fresh.
Yeah, I'm cultivating the rocket (but they're all about to bolt) but the weed has a sufficiently interesting appearance that I'll let it grow a bit more.