Nice.
I wish I had learned more about gardening from my grandfather.
He was the only farmer in his area, during the Depression, that did lose his top soil because he knew how to plant trees around his property.
He also grew the biggest vegetables in his area.
Heavy organic matter is anaerobic soil conditions rob the soil of nitrogen.
My grandmother was a classic southern lady. Her garden was amazing. Weed free, lush with minimal water, productive and delicious. In her starched bonnet, apron and long sleeve blouse she tended it early morning and made it look easy.
An old black man with a wagon drawn by the same mule that tilled the garden would arrive with single plow, little disc , harrow and hiller. In not long the garden was ready for planting.
In her family years she and my grandfather fed a family of 12 children and others on a 20 acre farm. 1000 quarts a year was common for the brush arbor outdoor kitchen. All done in the 20s thru the 40s. They always had food and were clean, decent, hard working and Godly.