[rightly_dividing]

Have you thought about acquiring a small four wheel drive vehicle to climb the hill for you? A Subaru wagon or small PU?

I had a discussion a few weeks ago with a former horticulture teacher from a local college that advised if planting in clay to dig out your garden area six or eight in deep, then take an auger and drill as deep as possible and as many as possible holes and fill the holes with small rock for good drainage. Then fill the bed in with good soil. Idea is to get drainage, rather than planting a garden is a clay bowl. I am just a novice myself, repeating what I have been told. YMMV

[Ellendra]

Have you thought about acquiring a small four wheel drive vehicle to climb the hill for you? A Subaru wagon or small PU?

I have thought about it, but even those couldn't get up the 12' near-vertical drop-off where the uphill side of my land meets the road. If I were to buy the land next door it would be possible, the slope mellows out a little there, but it would still be nerve-wrecking. After I get my house built, I'm thinking pack animals. Maybe a nice mule.

The difficulties in the land are part of the reason I could afford it, so I hope I don't sound like I'm complaining. I love this place! It just takes some stubborness and ingenuity sometimes to get things done.