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Re: Brown Thumb in Utah with Questions

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>In the places where I have managed to make some decent soil- it has been
>with a little clay,compost,and vermiculite and composted manure - in pretty
>much equal proportions- sometimes some peat- depending on what is going in
>the bed- Even then it seems like the clay just "eats up" all the goodies in
>6 months and I have to keep ammending- which is why I have just done raised
>beds or I dig the nasty clay out  altogether and just put the good stuff
>down in the trench.
>
>-Teri

On the organic gardening list, they've had several threads having to do 
with no-till. Several people who have tried it say that organic matter 
tilled into soil disappears in a year or two. But if you put organic matter 
on top of the soil and let soil microcreatures and creatures carry it 
downstairs, it tends to be a more permanent improvement of the soil. Please 
don't ask me to explain the logic of this. It's just one of those phenomena 
that seem to work. Were I to amend clay for the first or even second times, 
I'd till in organic matter. Then start laying compost on top, and let the 
soil critters do the work better than I can do it.

Also, I've heard one or two people say they killed Bermuda grass with an 
Epsom salts mixture.  I don't know the concentration they used or even 
whether their claims were truthful.  But it would be cheap to try it 
yourself...Margaret L


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