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Re: Soil Amendments

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>
>I've got a dumb question--- but the dumbest question is the one you don't
>ask, right?
>
>I know that Mel's "special soil formula" is 1/3 coarse vermiculite, 1/3
>peat moss, and 1/3 well-rotted compost, right?
>
>Well, do you put that ON TOP OF your regular dirt, or do you mix it INTO
>your regular dirt?
>
>If on top: do you dig up your regular dirt, and then just shovel the, uh,
>Melsoil on top of it?  Or do you just let your regular dirt lay there, hard
>as can be, and shovel the Melsoil on top of it?
>
>If you mix it in: how much dirt mixes into how much Melsoil?  50/50?
>
>Dumb as dirt,


Hi Julianne,

I already posted a 'what I did' post , so here's a 'what  Mel said'
post...In his Cash from Square Foot Gardening, 1985, he says to mix three
inches of  soil mix with a shovel depth equivalent of original soil; then
add three more inches of soil mix and mix that in; then top it off with a
couple inches of pure soil mix (Melsoil, as you call it). So you have a
perfect Melsoil on top, sliding down into a fifty/fifty mix at the bottom,
still pretty fancy by ordinary gardening standards...

By the way dirt is pretty amazing stuff; a single gram of it may contain
several million bacteria of over 14,000 species...there's a lot of divine
intelligence in there that has yet to be fully understood by the human
mind....so 'dumb as dirt' may be smarter than you think...:-)

Frank Teuton


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