More Progress – It is starting to look good.

Some more work has yielded god results, there is now some good soil evident after all the weeding. It was very hard like this:

 

Much work later it is looking like this:

There is a definite lack of organic matter in the soil but that can be fixed with some green manure crops or perhaps some bags of organic compost and manure from the hardware shop. I see the occasional worm when I am digging but their numbers are nowhere near my target density of 25 worms per cubic foot which is the ideal suggested by the biological farming guys.

The middle bed has quite different soil, it has much more clay than the others and breaks up into big clods. It is going to require an application of gypsum to change the soil structure:

 

Some of the sleepers on this bed are showing advanced signs of deterioration. The three beds in the garden are so big that I will be able to close down some sections if necessary and use the their sleepers.

The sleepers are untreated. The treated ones leach toxins into the soil which are then absorbed by the plant.

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