Hello,
We’re setting out on a new adventure in a new town being built just outside Exeter . We’re in the process of setting up a community garden group (incredible edible )and have been offered land to grow on from the local school.
The land there is in poor condition, the developers have used up most of the topsoil , and the remaining soil is heavy clay. We’re thinking of starting of with raised beds and in this way building the vegetable beds on top of the soil. We have been offered free horse manure.
So my question is do we need to do anything to the soil before we put a raised bed on top of it ? And what ratio should we mix the soil for the raised beds ? ie manure/ compost/ topsoil
Many thanks, Andrea
