vege/tomato garden issue - I am gROOTS

[kvet]

The berry plants you see on the edge have been there 20+ years to varying levels of growth, sometimes they are cut back, sometimes pulled out, originally grew quite dense - the raised bed you see is maybe 4-5 years old, and the berries were pulled/cut out at that time. The main bed, which is not pictured, is also about 20 years, it's been amended with lots of organic materials yet still is a complete block of clay. It's depressing.

There are a lot of trees outside the two fenced areas, including cypress, palm trees, various fruit trees, etc. This is the middle of a slope that's relatively flat.

I'm not sure how we're going to trench with rock-hard dirt, but I guess that is something we can try if we decide to continue. Maybe I can borrow a jack hammer with a spade on it.

Crud. The more I think this through, the more abandoning a normal vege garden is the best solution, and we should just work out some sort of container gardening.