"KK" wrote in message ...
Wow, I would have thought it would have been more than that... so would 2"
be 10%? or doesn't it work like that?

It's now apparent that I just haven't put on enough each year even though it
seemed like a bunch. This fall it's going to get "loaded" up with what ever
I can find and tilled in and I'll probably add a little nitrogen to the mix.

Thanks for all the info...



Mde too, but I bet it's by weight.

Another thing to do is continually compost in your garden pathways,
think a foot or so of woodchips and use them to cover grass
clippings,weeds and kitchen wastes between the growing areas in your
garden.That way it still looks neat and clean. Come spring you can
sift the new humous into your growing areas and allow the earthworms
to till it in for you. Then you refiill the paths.
Using a deep mulch on the growing areas is another technique because
it enriches and loosens the soil as it decays. 6" or more with the
mulch pulled back wherever you put a plant.
Keep an ear out for a barnload of spoiled hay.
Here on my 0.23 of an acre it was a way of making large amounts of
compost in a very small area and not losing growing space.
Cover crops work well also, things like buckwheat can give you 3 or 4
crops in a season to till under and choke out the weeds at the same
time.

See if any of Ruth Stout's books are in your local library she was a
mulch gardener. "How to have a green Thumb Without an Aching Back"
was one of her's.
Make your local library get you a copy via interlibrary loan.

Don't let any organic material leave your property .