I've done a lot of backyard gardening experiments for many years and the most impressive results I've gotten have come from mixing goat manure with very sandy soil and using leaves. The most amazing and easiest garden I ever had was created by simply fencing in a section of the lawn and blowing around 3 ft of leaves into the area in the fall. By spring the leaves were down to about 6 in deep and all the weeds and grass was dead so I just made some holes in the leaves and planted things. The sugar snap peas seemed to like it the most, they were the most amazing shade of green I'd ever seen sugar snap peas and despite me being right at 6 ft tall with very long arms I was having to bend them over to reach the highest peas. Most everything grew amazingly well but there were a lot of crickets that ate many potatoes. I didn't have to fertilize, till, weed, or water. A lot of goat manure in sand works amazingly well too. I had a farm with very depleted very sandy soil that wouldn't even grow weeds hardly. I tilled it up and raked the roots out, then added a lot of goat manure and leaf mulch on top to hold the water in better plus more nutrients. I grew the biggest peanuts I've ever seen, lots of huge bell peppers, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, tomatoes corn, everything did amazingly well. I used diatomaceous earth to dust the corn and tomatoes to keep the worms under control but that's all I needed to use.
I've done a lot of backyard gardening experiments for many years and the most impressive results I've gotten have come from mixing goat manure with very sandy soil and using leaves. The most amazing and easiest garden I ever had was created by simply fencing in a section of the lawn and blowing around 3 ft of leaves into the area in the fall. By spring the leaves were down to about 6 in deep and all the weeds and grass was dead so I just made some holes in the leaves and planted things. The sugar snap peas seemed to like it the most, they were the most amazing shade of green I'd ever seen sugar snap peas and despite me being right at 6 ft tall with very long arms I was having to bend them over to reach the highest peas. Most everything grew amazingly well but there were a lot of crickets that ate many potatoes. I didn't have to fertilize, till, weed, or water. A lot of goat manure in sand works amazingly well too. I had a farm with very depleted very sandy soil that wouldn't even grow weeds hardly. I tilled it up and raked the roots out, then added a lot of goat manure and leaf mulch on top to hold the water in better plus more nutrients. I grew the biggest peanuts I've ever seen, lots of huge bell peppers, sweet potatoes, carrots, onions, tomatoes corn, everything did amazingly well. I used diatomaceous earth to dust the corn and tomatoes to keep the worms under control but that's all I needed to use.