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Re: [PRIMROSES] CEMENT/SOIL/PLUTO AND THE REST OF THE FACTS...

In a message dated 98-01-04 08:16:48 EST, NANCY SWELL wrote:

<< I have
the only sandy hard pan I've ever seen. Surface subsoil. the clay is more
nearly kaolin, or in pottery terms, short or porcelain type. It can be
worked as the snow melts on it, and dries to sandstone in the summer. The
pH when I first started gardening here was about 3.9. Acid enough to fizz.
No plasticity, and no shrink-swell tendencies. If it is compacted, it stays
that way, and for the only bonus I have found, you don't have to put
footers under a wall. .......
 I
 started terracing my hillside after over 3 inches of rain wet down 1/8 of
 an inch. That incidentally is how I killed an oak tree.  >>


SO ALL THIS BIG DEBATE ABOUT BEDS KILLING TREES WAS PREMISED ON THE DEATH OF
YOUR TREE.....AND NOW YOU MENTION THIS CEMENT YOU CALL SOIL.....

GEEZ O PETES....THATS LIKE ME FORGETTING TO MENTION MY HOSTA ARE ON PLUTO, AND
DONT GET ENOUGH SUN.......ARGHHHHH!!!!

JUST HAVIN' FUN.....BE FREE.....KEN
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