Help!
I have one big fat mess in my garden.
Basically I have raised beds that were built on top of clay.
Nothing has been done for 5 years to them.
My husband dug the dirt and I realized this won't cut it. They were compacted and no depth at all.
I got 6 cubit feet of peat moss and cow manure and layed it on the garden.
It doesn't want to drink! I've shoveled and dug and mixed but they do not like each other.
I have a big fat soupy muddy mess that won't sustain planting any seeds as the runoff is in rivulets in just minutes of watering. The silly beds are now overfull of peat, clay, and cow manure and I am trying to mix them together but it isn't going well.
The clay had had sand added to it before I can tell.
I hesitate to do anything without some advice here.
It isn't draining well at all.
How do you make it drain? Add pine bark mulch? Garden soil? Sand?
I think peat moss was a total mistake.
Any advice will be appreciated.
I turned 50 today and this was my "birthday Present" to plant the garden!
That ain't gonna happen without some fixing!
You'd think I hadn't learned a thing in my years of gardening...
What would you do?
