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I was just wondering about this exact thing. We have a 60-foot round garden area (around 2800 square feet) that's never been tilled. The soil is clay with a layer of sand, plus about 5 years' worth of leaves, grass, and weeds. I did some digging last weekend and it was a little easier than I...

Hi Athena, I'm in north Georgia, where the soil is naturally dense, hard clay. I'm going to try something called No-Dig Gardening this year...I read about it in Mother Earth News: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2008-06-01/No-Dig-Garden-Beds.aspx Essentially you use bags of...

patandchickens, thank you for your thoughtful reply! Moving all the compacted sand to one side and fully tilling the clay underneath would be a massive job. Since I don't have a tractor it would probably be more work than building raised beds, and more effort than the partial-sun location...

Hiya, A little over a year ago, DH and I bought a small 5-acre farm in north Georgia, and we're finally ready to do some gardening on it. We've been talking about where to begin, and we have several acres of wild pasture that might make good gardening, but we'd have to have it bush-hogged and...

I'd love to see a section on garden planning. I have a bunch of questions on that, but I'm not sure where to ask them.

Hiya! Rural Cherokee County here, about 30 min north of the city. I've lived in this area for 9 years and like it a lot. I've farmed in VT (rocks) and gardened in MA (nice dark brown soil) in the past, and never seen anything as tough as the red clay here. I've made a few halfhearted attempts...