Specialty Gardening: Try These!, 1 by Tree_Climber

Tree_Climber wrote:
Jim,

This thread has given me an idea for a problem I have had for 3 years now.

We built a raised bed garden in an area where the ground is clay. I have never been able to get the soil like I want it and was considering digging it all out and ordering lots of compost. (Don't have any of my own yet, but was working on it.)

I have been looking over the material at your website, and I'm thinking I will experiment with the grow boxes and one of the suggested "soil" mixtures. I would need to find out which ingredients I can get easily. (I haven't gotten to the section on fertilizers yet)

What do you think? In this garden, I have 4 beds that are 10 feet x 6 feet, and the two middle ones are 6 feet x 7 feet. The bottoms are Clay, and they aren't very deep, but I could add another board to the sides if necessasary.

Here's a picture of the Garden when we had just finished it.