Soil here is useless for growing anything but cactus. We have to add so much stuff to the soil to get anything else to grow. The only way to have a garden is to dig out a trench and fill it with potting soil stuff. We're talking about doing raised beds for some home-grown vegetables or a greenhouse for winter. We have caliche here that is sometimes just a few inches below the surface - that stuff is as hard as cement and impossible to dig through.
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