Soil is not dirt?

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Many tree problems are associated with the following:

Troubles in the Rhizosphere
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/shigo/RHIZO.html

Unhealthy Trees from the Nursery / Improper Planting
http://home.ccil.org/~treeman/sub1.html and
Look up "Tree Planting"
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/shigo/RHIZO.html

Improper Mulching - http://home.ccil.org/~treeman/sub3.html and
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/M/index.html Look up "Mulch"

Improper Pruning
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/tree_pruning/

Improper Fertilization (See A Touch of Chemistry)
http://www.treedictionary.com/DICT2003/shigo/CHEM.html

Sincerely,
John A. Keslick, Jr.
Arborist
http://home.ccil.org/~treeman
and www.treedictionary.com
Beware of so-called tree experts who do not understand tree biology.
Storms, fires, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions keep reminding us
that we are not the boss.

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your experimental design is flawed. you needed to mulch the other
with cypress or some other colored mulch as a control. bare dirt is
not a proper control to the red mulch. Ingrid

On Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:01:59 -0600, Jack Schmidling
wrote:

We (my wife, as I said she was nuts) did an experiment with tomatoes and
red SRM mulch this year and I am eating crow.

The plants in the mulch row are at least twice as big as the row planted
in bare dirt... same plants only two feet away.

Anyone else have experience with this stuff?

js