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Here's an old tip that you may already know. If you don't have room for a compost heap, dig a long trench in your vegetable bed about one foot deep. Put vegetable peelings, egg shells, annual weeds tea leaves etc in the trench in newspaper and cover with soil. Work your way along the trench doing this. This will decompose sufficiently in the winter to enrich and lighten the soil. All greedy vegetables can be planted straight into it. This method was used during WW2 in Britain to do away with the unnecessary waste of space that a compost heap made. Also it was free and readily available. Over the years your soil will improve, but never deep dig clay, better to use this method. Good luck.