Fertiliser

A question about : Fertiliser

I havent been able to grow anything at all - not even weeds- on the former hen run. By what I have read and been told, it might be too high in nitrogen. What can I do to counteract this, in the way of adding fertiliser or bonemeal or similar? Want to grow veg there, mainly tatties leeks and turnips.

Best answers:

• Hens been gone 2 years now, I tried last spring and nothing would grow at all - not even weeds. Nothing, although there were nettles and dockens growing round about there.
• have you dug it all up?
• Dug it over often during last year, to loosen it up and bring the soil lower down to the top. Can't start digging it yet, our snow just melted a few days ago and the ground is still hard as iron.
• You may need to do a bit of research.
  Try this for starters.
  https://www.soils4teachers.org/fertility
  and this
  https://www.soilhealth.com/soils-are-...-soil/p-01.htm
  Watch this esp double digging!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyPD..._OPg6p6kZjeqTc
  Hth
• Nettles r a sign that the soil is good
• But the nettles were growing round about the patch - not in it. I thought that wasn't right.. I think I'm going to end up tramping it flat and sticking potato sacks and tubs on top of it, with good compost in, and growing stuff in them.