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RE: Melsoil // My experience // UPDATE

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First, thanks to all for your comments, including Teres. 

Teres, your experience (combined with my more recent experience) really
renewed my faith in Melsoil. And I'm currently busy preparing some
strawberry beds. Such a joy to know that other than keeping square foot beds
fed with good compost and mulched (and watered during a drought whether
they're planted or not, I now know -- or better yet planted!!), the soil
will never have to be *prepared* again. I LIKE that. A lot.

The update to my experience? We had a tiny bit of soft, gentle rain last
week and it did WONDERS for the watering problem I was moaning about,
especially having the mulch down, which both helped capture the rain and
keep the soil moist after. It helped tremendously. And in the last 24 hours
we had another whole inch. Let's see now, that probably means we're only 10+
inches down for the year.  :-( 

Anyway, full speed ahead.

Patricia S.
Zone 7b, West Georgia
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Teres wrote:
>I used Melsoil this year, my first year with sq ft gardening and loved it!
>My garden produced earlier, more and longer than my neighbors.  In fact
>there was one person in my neighborhood who didn't get anything at all with
>traditional methods.  I may give her a copy of Mel's book for Christmas.  I
>made sure that the soil remained at the very least somewhat moist,  actually
>only where the plants were because I watered with a cup as suggested in the
>book.  Early summer that meant about 2 times a week, during 100 degree
>weather, that meant almost every day.  I only have 1 4x8 bed, and have
>started constructing 2 more for next year.  It took a total of 10 minutes
>before work to get my watering done.  I have just started pulling out things
>like summer squash and the zucchini because I have a freezer full of
>shredded zucchini and no one ate the summer squash.  I know it sounds corny,
>but Melsoil worked very well for me and I wouldn't garden any other way.
>
>There is an issue with clay soil.  When making soil to put on top of a clay
>surface it creates a hard layer that water just sits on.  I think because
>vegetables grow shallow it doesn't become an issue.  But, I don't use the
>Melsoil for planting other stuff like trees or bushes.  Just a thought.
>
>Teres :)
>
>
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