I started with a hard clay acid soil. So hard it takes a pickax to dig a hole. The kind of stuff you need to beat off the shovel if it is a little wet.
So I took the tractor and dug a garden size hole about 8 inches deep. I filled the hole to ground level with horse manure with shavings; leaves and grass clippings. I then put rail road ties around the garden making it a 6 inch raised garden. I put the soil out of the hole back on top. After the manure and leaves composted I plowed it mixing the compost with the original clay. Did a soil test and added lime.
Never really paid attention to the ratio of NPK to each other. Would add some composted chicken manure and a all around commercial fertilizer like 13/13/13 Only being a small family garden one thinks "if you over fertilize you are only wasting money" Garden did well but last few years has been in decline. At first you take it as a bad year. But over and over something is wrong. So I did another soil test and was told my P is to getting high. Doing some reading I think the manure is doing it. Should have been using something like urea to balance the manure rather than the 13/13/13 I need to pay more attention to the NPK ratio in the future.
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