Re: How Much Cold
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: How Much Cold
- From: A* R* <a*@mpd.tandem.com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 15:09:03 -0500 (CDT)
> What are freckles and pink skin???
I've got it myself, a person of Scottish descent living in South
Texas :-)
> In Texas and west of Louisana, does your soil have lots of sand?
> What do you do about drainage. Well, that question on top of the water
> shortage discussion doesn't make much sense. Where the South West might
> have to mulch and manure for moisture in their sand, Florida has an abundance
> of moisture so wouldn't mulch nuch. HUMMM.
Oh, but you see, you have forgotten rocks and clay. We have little
sand in our soil in central Texas... it's mostly black clay and
rocks -- limestone, to be precise, which raises our soil and water
pH tremendously. The rocks can't absorb any moisture, so that
leaves the clay, which will absorb it, but it expands and contracts
like the dickens. If we had plenty of rain we *might* want to
add sand for drainage, but you see, we DON'T have enough rain, it's
feast or famine -- either water engorged, sticky black clay or
parched, cracked black clay.
We do add manure and other organic matter, because our high
temperatures mean rapid decomposition of any and all organic
matter, so it's a constant struggle to keep up. We do mulch
to keep the soil cool and retain what moisture there is in the
soil.
Complicated?
--
Amy Moseley Rupp
amyr@mpd.tandem.com, Austin, TX, zone 8b
Jill O. *Trades
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