Acid test (and more!) in the garden

[ar_wahan]

I've been wanting to get more serious about my vegetable gardening this year. I built raised beds eons ago, and enriched them with composted horse manure, and kitchen compost, and the occasional freezer-burned brook trout (from husband's catch, which he'd freeze and then forget about) over the years, plus lime because, like much of New England, our

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[ranunculus]

Hmmmm. Afford amendments. Keep chipping away at the amendment issue. LOTS of amendments can be had for free if you ask/search. Compost made from food prep scraps and yard cleanings is the cheapest. Check with neighbors for yard waste. Then comes manure from local stable/desperate to-get-rid-of-stable-waste followed by small amounts of money for commercial fertilizer supplement. Since horse manure is -supposed- to be neutral it is a good choice.
Strawberries like a very acid environment so you might try amending with something alkaline and see what happens...
My yard has strawberries all over it. Maybe I should do the same!

[ladyegreen]

I'm impressed with all you have done! I need to do this myself but, truth be told, I'm anticipating not living here for more than another year and a half.

I haven't been able to grow anything in my yard. Absolutely nothing flourishes in the ground out here other than pine trees and azaleas.

Go you, I think it's wonderful that you're out there growing your own stuff.

[starseeking]

Reading this all I could hear was the song "Grow For Me" from The Little Shop of Horrors musical..