My garden area's dirt is rock hard! what to do?

Yes there is but will take a long time for amending.Apply gysum which will start to break the soil down,then you will have to add peat moss and a good garden soil.In the mean time try doing container plantings based on your planting zone until the ground will be soft enough to plant.

You can rent a tiller and till the soil. Then amend the soil with composted manure, peat moss, and some garden soil. Till that into the soil.

You can try composting right on the soil. You have to keep compost slightly damp and turn it often. Soil always need something added. You can use boards to make a slightly raised garden, and fill it with bags of soil. Anything you do seems to cost $$$.

I ordered a "meadow Creature" that is the most wonderful broadfork. It was able to pierce rock hard soil in a 4-year old paddock. It is costly, but a tool that does it all. Soil, compacted earth, gravel (driveway) etc.

Also soaking the earth with water may help. But the broadfork doesn't hurt your back, cause you use your body weight to drive it into dirt and body weight to lift the dirt.

i drive around in th fall and pick up everybodys bagged leaves and put on my garden

for all winter then till them in come spring

im keeping their waste out of the landfill and composting at the same time

I have to grow in raised beds. Go to Home Dpt or Lowes & get landscape timber or ask them what is best. Make square or rectangle shapes, fill with dirt, Garden centers will truck it in. I have to grow in that. Or go to youtube.com & put in search engine "raised bed gardening"