This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: soil prep for next year

There's an interesting essay in "How to Grow Vegetables & Fruits by the
Organic Method", Rodale Press, about growing on top of bad soil by heavily
mulching with hay and planting right on top of the hay, then mulching again
on top of that. It worked well for many, though not all, vegetable crops.
See if your library has a copy of this book, the relevant info is on pages
120-121 and 246-248.

Denise McCann Beck
USDA Zone 7
Sunset Western 4
Coastal Bristish Columbia 

----------
> From: Jalust@aol.com
> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Cc: Jalust@aol.com
> Subject: soil prep for next year
> Date: Tuesday, July 01, 1997 5:00 PM
> 
> I have said before that my gardening expert brother, the Johnny Appleseed
of
> central New York, dumped 2 vanloads of city "mulch" in his little garden
> space, thus introducing everything and every disease he did not have
before
> "improving' the site.
> 
> Long-winded way of saying that we scraped out as much of the stuff as we
> could,but
> the ground is still very heavy clay.  What should we till in in the fall
to
> make this little garden better?  I am hand-pulling a little bindweed at
the
> moment, and it is under control.  This has been a garden site for a few
> years, but no one has tried to really improve the soil.
> 
> Judy
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index