Re: Mounding Soil & Compost Acidity Adjustment
- To: <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Re: Mounding Soil & Compost Acidity Adjustment
- From: "* R* <r*@kersur.net>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 12:18:01 -0400
Scott, I'm no expert, but we've been told here up in N.E. that oak leaves
are worthless. Good Luck
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> From: Parsons, Scott <ParsonsS@ANNISTON-EXCH1.army.mil>
> To: Pumpkins@Mallorn. Com (E-mail) <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
> Subject: Mounding Soil & Compost Acidity Adjustment
> Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 10:42 AM
>
> Growers,
> I have two questions today that I've thought about
> seems like a lot these last few days:
>
> 1. Why do (especially you growers in the north)
> mound up the soil where the pumpkin is planted?
> Is this to distribute the solar heat to the root system?
>
> 2. Here in the south where I live we do not have an
> abundance of maple trees to use the leaves in making
> a compost heap. Can other leaves, say oak be used
> and if so, can you adjust the acidity of the composted
> leaves and the compost heap in general? With what?
> Lime maybe?
>
> Still thinking about next year.
>
> Scott in Alabama
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