Beginner Gardening: why did my sugar snap peas turn brown?, 0 by Farmerdill

Farmerdill wrote:
I am a traditional grower, I plow and cultivate and let the young folks try all the newfangled ideas. My techniques date to horse and buggy days. I no longer work with horse drawn equipment but I have. The only problem with tillage is that clay soils when worked with something like a rear tine tiller will be broken into very fine particles. A heavy rain and it will form bricks. Incorporate lots of plant matter and you alleviate the problem, The only thing that comes out of my patches are eaten or given away. all the rest of the plants are ploughed back into the soil.