We've got a new-build garden and the soil may as well be builder's rubble. It's solid clay, water-logged for months during the winter and like cement in the summer. I've put down Clay Breaker powder in the hope it will work but feel it will need a tonne of it. This is the first garden we've ever had and all i dream of is a mature garden with well-worked soil and borders. In reality the whole lot needs to come out. The one glimmer of hope is i found worms in the clay. How butch must they be to actually penetrate this stuff?! Just trying to dig it through is back-breaking.
The photos show the raised beds we put in which the root veg got trapped in last year and that was after digging it over and adding sacks and sacks of compost! The clay always wins the war!
Anyone got any experience of this type of thing, i would love to hear from you ..did you win the war on clay or did it break your back?!