Re: New Beds in zone 8 -sand
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: New Beds in zone 8 -sand
- From: A* R* <a*@austx.tandem.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 12:26:48 -0600 (CST)
> a good soil has some of all these-though the organics are not needed by the
> plants.
I beg to differ -- the organic matter is desperately needed by the
plants for nutrients and to even more importantly to sustain the
decomposition lifecycle to sustain earthworms, etc. which improve
aeration. While you can keep a *plant* alive with pure chemical salts,
you cannot keep a soil alive in that manner.
--
Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
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