Organic Gardening

I am trying to build a backyard organic garden. Our house is new and there is nothing in the garden yet. The soil is hopeless clay; even the pick axe bounces off. My aim is to rehabilitate the soil using a worm farm, composting, used coffee grounds, rotting leafs collected from friends, newspaper and some top soil and blood & bone.

I have decided to write down what I will be doing for this vegetable plot so that it may help people with the same kind of soil problem.

Here are a pictures of the planned vegetable garden plot at the back of the house.

As you see from the pictures above, clay is sitting there and forming a dish which floods the area during the rainy season. I will try to dig in some gypsum to break down the clay. The area is 20meters to 2meters. If I become successful it should provide us enough amount of veggies for the season.