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Re: Melsoil // My experience

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Paula's question reminds me I've been planning to ask the list about
Melsoil. I made 2 squares with it -- absent the wood ash, as I recall.,
since I didn't have any. 

I'm not sure I'm all that happy with it. My first use has been to plant a
small fall garden. Beans, peas, that kind of thing. But the raised beds I'd
prepared had dried out so badly during our terrible drought that not
understanding the nature of peat moss, I didn't drench it thoroughly before
planting. So I've had a very difficult time getting water past the top very
thin layer. And of course, once things have sprouted, you can't get too
aggressive about poking around making holes for the water to go in. I have
since mulched around things, so that should help retain what moisture I can
get in there, but it's been very frustrating, to say the least. I'm not sure
I'd use much -- if ANY -- peat moss again. In fact, I can't wait to tear
into these and do soemthing else with the soil. Not sure what, but something. 

Any comments -- or other experience -- from Melsoil advocates? 

Patricia S.
Zone 7b,. West Georgia


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