Wow - really good work, especially for the first year.
Best thing for clay soil is to get a good green manure sown over the winter. Once everything's died back in late autumn, plant some field beans, tares, and definitely some forage rye and they'll thrive over winter, suppress weeds, break up the clay and fix nitrogen into the soil. Then, come spring, you murder it all with a hoe and dig it in and the plants themselves will enrich the soil even further. I generally get mine from Sow Seeds and they've been really good.
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Date: 2015-07-02 08:59 pm (UTC)Best thing for clay soil is to get a good green manure sown over the winter. Once everything's died back in late autumn, plant some field beans, tares, and definitely some forage rye and they'll thrive over winter, suppress weeds, break up the clay and fix nitrogen into the soil. Then, come spring, you murder it all with a hoe and dig it in and the plants themselves will enrich the soil even further. I generally get mine from Sow Seeds and they've been really good.
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