Northeast Gardening: Weather Guru Needed! (Z6-Lehigh Valley, Pa.), 1 by gotpups

gotpups wrote:
Does anyone know how many days of above-freezing weather will it take to unfreeze the soil in order to work it?

I dug up the ENTIRE backyard just before the first freeze, and was able to get in organic bits for about 1/3 of it.
The other two-thirds is still mostly pure clay and very lumpy-bumpy.
The clay has the consistency, when frozen, of pottery..no surprise there.
(I am in town (Bethlehem), which is a bit warmer than the surrounding area)

This is a task, I might add, which has prepared me for residence in a Siberian labor camp, should that need arise.