Re: Fwd: Maybe try the No-till way (Was Pioneer Plants)

Barry Garcia wrote:
> 
> By they way, my garden is somewhat no-till, but not on purpose. Much of it
> is due to just laying down mulch to keep weeds at bay and make the yard
> look nicer. Recently i was doing some digging and noticed in areas i had
> disturbed the soil less, and it stayed moister, the bottom layer of much
> had turned black and was starting to look like the black earth of the
> nearby Salinas valley. Some parts had very obvious fungi feeding off of
> the mulched wood (you could see it as a white stringy mass). So, the
> structure of the soil here is gradually improving.
> 
> Which reminds me, I need to buy even more mulch to replace that which has
> broken down and or has gotten pushed into the sandy soil.

Mulching is the very easiest way to produce an improved soil with a
minimum of effort and the beauty of this method is that you are really
working with the local ecosystem rather than trying to fight it or
subdue it. A restful approach, I reckon, and  one which has often
produced some spectacular results.

Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan
Wainuiomata - at the Southern tip of North Island, NZ,
Lat 41°15'S, Long 174°58'E (Antipodes of Spain/Southern France)
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