The moon is in the seventh house and the weather is pleasant, a good time for a new garden challenge.
I have long been looking at the back yard with a view to growing veges there instead on having to drive 45 minutes to the current vege garden at Springbrook. The problem being that when the house was built the land was excavated at the back to a depth of about 1 meter making the surface soil hard clay. The soil is so hard that a crow bar will only penetrate a couple of inches when driven hard.
So, why not give it a go. I have started off with an application of gypsum at the rate of 1KG per Sq.M. to break down the clay and in the near future I will also give the area a treatment with the biodynamic preparation 500:
Here it is after the gypsum….
At present I am contemplating a no-dig garden to start off with, I wonder if I will have spring veges?
