Help!!! I want to Garden but....?

Clay is where most of the minerals come from which produce fruit and vegetables. Unfortunately clay is usually highly acidic which causes it to compact so tightly and remain compacted. Mixing sand with the clay will help break up the compaction and then adding a mixture of vegetable material such as leaves form hardwood trees (oak etc) pine straw, gr or hay will further help with the compaction problem and these materials add certain minerals also as well as adding a water holding factor. To deal with the acidic problem you will have to add dolemetic lime at a certain rate depending upon the ph of the soil. For vegetable and most other plants a 10-10-10 fertilizer will provide nutrition for your plants. This may sound somewhat complicated to someone who hasn't ever had a garden or farmed but it isn't.