Beginner Gardening: Quick question about compost, 1 by bunsengirl

bunsengirl wrote:
Hey Crash, how are you improving your heavy clay??? I've been putting in a first time garden bed behind my duplex in south Austin. Been making compost, shoveling in horse manure from the people behind me, digging down a foot with my shovel and turning, even amending with bags of soil amendment from home depot. After MONTHS of this it seems like I've still got pure clay 6 inches down. Planted radishes early and they grew huge leafy tops but it seems the radishes are trying to grow above ground - like the soil's too dense for them to form globes below ground. It's terrible. How many years am I supposed to do this before the clay subsides? I started making compost June 2006 and have been working the ground since Feb of this year. I'm already sick of the garden and have yet to plant my seedlings in the ground. I'm so bummed! ;(

The picture is all my beautiful veggie seedlings sitting next to my "clay pit."