Reply To: Getting land ready for vegetables – old field.

[Rhys]

Steve, one thing you will find is that drainage improves over a few years as you practice no dig. My patch regularly had ponds on it in wet winters when digging was occurring (very heavy clay soil), but after four years no dig, drainage is very good and the soil is even workable in late January, not that I wish to work it (just hoeing and raking after winter harvests prior to composting).