[GH85Carrera]

With the bosses wife as a master gardener she decided we need a compost two years ago. She ordered a compost barrel, that I can dump in my grass clippings and banana peels, and orange rinds, and such in the summer. In the winter it does not compost fast enough so it mostly sits. We also have a pile of compost next to the barrel, and a trash can with big holes drilled in it for leaves. It all get mixed in. The compost barrel is on a frame with a big pin in the middle, so it can be mixed up by just rotating the entire barrel. It all get added into the flower beds in the spring.
Our soil is 100% red gumbo clay. Just scoop it up, get the leaves and grass roots out of it, and bake it to make bricks. After all the years of working the soil in the flower beds the top few inches has turned into regular soil.

To dig in very far takes multiple tools. One shovel or post hole digger, then a scraper to scrape the gooey clay off of the shovel, than a scraper to scrape off the scrapper, and a piece of wood to scrape off the scraper's, scraper. If you wait until the heat of summer and if it has not rained for a while a jackhammer can be used to just break up the hardened clay. We have a several sandstone rocks I have pulled from the yard while digging a spot for another tree.