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Well I figured, after watching your double dig video, that it would be best to do it also.

Yeah you know you are right. I think I might be letting this article I read on San Diego gardening influence my judgement too much, which was really informative, but I really should just have the full test done. I'll look in to it tonight. Thanks.

The only thing I have gotten to is breaking up the soil a bit more at the final depth and have added a bit of compost ands other organic material. The only test I have are the cheap ones for soil, since I haven't looked in to a full test yet, or really know if it'll make that much difference...

They are not in the ground yet but I'm working on the garden area all week. I have dug out an area 25 x 13 feet to a depth of 2.5 feet and currently working on amending the soil now and filling it back up. I didn't get any shots yesterday of the total depth but here are some in progress shots...

Yesterday I got down to an area that I couldnt get the spading fork more than an inch down. Lightly watered the area and had a beer, went back at it and could get about half the fork down in it. Works for me.

Soak the area with some water, it helps a lot.

Well I'm going for the long haul, tilled the first foot or more, and now in the process of digging out the clay soil for a total depth of 3 feet. I have pictures already but I'm going to add them to my glog on the next update. Going to have a couple cubic yards of organic compost plus castings...

I too have clay, and just got done tilling out about 600 square feet. Took me about 3 hours to till out that area to about a foot and a half in depth. I still have some more depth to go for the garden area but it's a great start and saved me probably over a weeks worth of time if I had done it...

Well I didn't grow this and don't plan on growing them but I have to share this picture. This is a cabbage pile at the local farmers market, these things are bigger than a basketball. The coffee cup in the picture is a medium size, for reference. I was pretty blown away by these.

Looking great, keep it up.

I have regular tomatillo seeds, send me an address I'll send them today.

I have Manzano Yellow seeds I can send you if you like, all mine germinated in a week. Paul your plants look amazing as always. I really love that Bolivian Rainbow, I have to remember to grow that one.

Yeah there were cardboard inserts for keeping soil in place, worked pretty good. I have the plants mostly getting indirect sun for the first couple days and I have started to give them more direct now.

Very true I have met some really great people on here. 1 Gallons Group shot

So big update today! Yesterday I recieved a shipment from Matt aka MGOLD86, which I am super excited about. I can't thank Matt enough for his generosity, he really is a great guy. All the plants arived within three days of him shipping them, and came in really good condition. My new babies...

+1 Don't do it. I don't get that many responding to mine, but I still keep going on doing what I do becuase its nice to share my grow with others that are doing the same. I still wait for your updates just as many others do I'm sure. :D

Looks great! Hope I can get my areas built up as nicely as yours. Most of my plants will be going in to the ground (asap) once I prep the ground to my liking. I'm a bit behind to where i should be right now with plants in ground, but hey it's CA out here so i have a long grow season, so I'm not...

Kellogg might work out alright for you with your climate. So far my experience with it is that it stays really wet for a long time even with a lot of perlite in it. I have a hard time with watering it because even when it feels light, it seems like I still have over watering issues with it. I've...

Bonide and pump sprayer is the very same I use, works great.

Yeah they are pretty picky. I've been giving them General Hydroponics Cal-Magic, but I am watching them a lot closer than the others. I'm sure they will turn out in the end but we'll see. Matt.. I can't wait!