after getting my mother thru her back operation brought on, no doubt,
by her years of breaking soil with a mattock I am of the "mulch it to
death" school.

we had lousy sand in one patch. I invited the area tree trimmers to
use this area to dump their mulch. I hooked up a flip flop and had
that wetting the mulch down every couple of days. within 1 year 4
feet of mulch had become nice organic soil. wet hardpan can also be
amended most easily this way. Ingrid

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:41:51 -0700, "Eigenvector"
As to the mattock, I didn't realize they were so cheap, had I known that I
would have gotten one sooner. Oh well, off to break soil.