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Old 18-05-2003, 06:08 PM
Dave Liquorice
 
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Default Need to improve large area of soil

On 18 May 2003 10:01:09 -0500, Mark Allison wrote:

Anyway, I have a rectangular area of land to improve measuring 25m x
5m. So in all that's about 125 square metres of land.

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I reckon I need at least a ton of grit, ...


Think you'll need more than that, thats only about 1cm depth over that
area, probably less. I think you'll be looking at closer to 5 tonnes.

... and I'm having trouble sourcing a large quantity of manure at
the moment.


Any local stables, they normally can't get rid of the stuff. Of course
you ideally want something rotted. Though as you are only soil
conditioning this year partially rotted would probably do. Again
you'll be looking at few tonnes. A lot of work to dig in by hand,
suggest a decent rotavator, go over the soil first to break it up (if
possible) spread the manure and grit and go over again.


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