Janie, find some lava sand to add to your soil--try a feed store. Greensense, I think, sells 40# bags. And some decomposed granite (I've found that in bags at Home Depot). They will help make the soil more approachable.

I dug a new bed, or at least, started that new bed over the weekend. I'm going to plant my gift to the neighborhood there, transplanted volunteer tomatoes. And probably some sunflowers, just to make that bed really pop. I love the way the ones that are growing in other parts of the yard now look.

SRS