Re: juniper problem?

At 12:49 PM 9/9/2002 -0500, you wrote:
2 - 4 lbs per sq ft..............how does this convert to inches deep?
Also, I have never understood how you keep adding layers to existing plantings..............seems like eventually you smother the plants......
Depends on the moisture content I suppose but figure a half inch to the pound (roughly by the olde rule of thumbe)

Layers onto existing layers - not a problem. Most of it will disappear every year due to further decomposition and the action of worms and other soil dwellers of one kind and size or the other. The hotter the year or soil, the faster it will degrade. You may only have a problem with too much in the first year or two of a soil restoration programme while the soil micro-organisms are getting re-established. Once your soil is alive and healthy you won't find too many problems with excessive layering.

Doug
Having said that, I do recall some conversation somewhere of heavy gumbo clay soils resenting too much organic matter. But that I suspect is a problem of a variety of things - one of which is that we're trying to impose an unnatural garden order onto a soil that wasn't naturally constructed to grow the kinds of things we want to grow there. ;-)
Doug Green
Author of the award winning "Gardening Wisdom"
See gardening articles at http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

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