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I’ve just lifted a pretty poor crop of potatoes from a bed that I added extra compost and manure to following the cold winter and long spell of no rain which followed it.
The area has a reasonably high clay content and over 8 years I’ve added a fair amount of muck and compost…but clearing the bed today, there are still massive clumps of compacted soil.
When I rake over, it's probably only a few inches before I hit solid ground. Are there some conditions that simply wont improve no matter how much you add or which are too vulnerable to the cold/hot-dry extremes we had this year? What’s the answer…build a raised bed on top
no matter what I do to it - it still reverts to clay.
Does it help a lot?