"Chris" wrote
after Bob Hobden answered
"Chris" wrote
What to add to make the ideal soil for vegetables?
The soil is good - but a bit heavy.
Should I add Irish Moss Peat
or a general purpose compost?
Or something else?
My veg plot is fairly small - and so cost per square yard doesn't matter
much.

Heavy clay soil is OK for most veg, it is more important you check the pH
than worry about it being heavy as a clay soil is a fertile soil. If you
want to lighten it to make it easier for you to work then see if your
local
green waste recycling plant will let you have a trailer load of soil
improver and dig it in. You local Council should be able to tell you
who/where they are.

Thanks for that.
What is the ideal pH for veg?

There isn't one pH suitable for all, potatoes like it slightly acid (under
7) and all brassicas like it alkaline (over 7).

Our soil is naturally acid, under pH6, so what we do in our 4 year rotation
is the potato bed gets loads of manure before planting, a good 3+ inches of
year old horse manure, the following year the same bed is limed heavily to
grow the brassicas.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
17mls W. of London.UK