DogsNDaylilies said:
Did you rototill each year for 25 years? We have hard, compacted clay soil as well which is a bear to dig into and has been seriously hampering my dreams for my garden out back.
We tilled in spring and fall for 23 years, haven't done so the last couple of years; actually the reason I quit tilling wasn't so much because I didn't want to, we had an extremely wet fall one year, and then the following spring was also very rainy and I just couldn't get the tiller into the garden early enough so I went ahead and did the garden without it -- and discovered I didn't need it, and ended up with fewer weeds and more worms. Plus I didn't have the issue of the occasional mangled toad, which always made me feel terrible!
