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Compost and manure not improving soil condition. What to do?

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Paulh:
Newspud9,

I think you are doing the right things with the soil - keep putting organic matter in and don't kill yourself double digging.

The key may be this:

"Like all of us, when the soil condition is working well, the yields are satisfactory, but the soil seems very quick to take offence if it’s unusually warm or cold…but I guess that’s no different from most."

I've given up sowing salads and roots directly at the times suggested on the packets or in books. March, April, it won't come up - too wet and cold. May, June it struggles with flea beetle or bolts - too hot and dry. This year, only now in late September, October I've got great salad leaves - cut and come again lettuce, rocket, mustard, Greek cress, radishes, an the chard is magnificent. Most other plotholders on the site are closing down for the winter but my salads are just beginning!

newspud9:
A repeated thanks to everyone who posted.  Not only helpful suggestions but always good to know that I'm not doing something completely counter-productive.

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