compost

Bobbie:
Saw your note about using 8-12 inches of compost in all your landscaping design jobs.  Do you add any other ammendments, such as manure or a bit of clay soil to your planting holes?  Do you advise your customers to do anything special to the beds every year?
Some years ago I read in one of Ann Lovejoy's books that she spreads a thick layer of compost. even under trees, doesn't till it in and plants directly in it.  In my late, still lamented KS garden I did just that and it worked well.  The country hort agent, speaking ex cathedra, said it made sense.  I knew that because it worked.
So then we moved to Cleveland, where I garden on 18 inches of clay over shale.  Both the designer who planned my garden and the hort agent said to spread topsoil mixed with some(?) compost as pure compost is too organic.  Well, I used the compost method anyway, since we are blessed with lovely abundant cheap municipal compost.  My garden grows with abandon.
How your deep compost beds develop over the long term?
Laura
Cleveland, 6a, Indian Summer
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