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water repellant spoil
Brooklyn1 wrote:
Fran Farmer wrote: I've been away for more than a month, and although Himself did a lot of watering, there are some places where the soil has dried out to such an extent that it's now baked and water repellant and all attempts at normal watering (ie hoses and sprinklers) are proving fruitless. How have others coped with this other than puddling and making mud pies? This does seem to work, but I'm sure there will be some reason why I shouldn't do this even though it can't be because of soil structure since where there is none to begin with once it's as dry as a chip. I also do not like using soil wetting agents since I've never been able to find out what it does to earth worms and I know they will return eventually, once it rains or the winter comes and the weather cools. Not enough details (climate, area size, growing?) but it's really a no-brainer... the best way to improve adobe-like soil is to till in organic matter and rich topsoil... invest in a Mantis tiller, a truckload of good topsoil, many bags of peat moss, Peat moss! Far too expensive. Why use an expensive limited resource like peat that must be transported long distances (Fran is Southern highlands NSW and the nearest peat bogs are in Tasmania) when some other local source of organic material will do as well and be much cheaper. Peat moss is not available cheaply around the world, stop being so parochical. and begin a composting program... over watering hard soil will just make a mess and when it dries it'll make your soil even harder. There's no magic bullet... you need to WORK at it... standing there with a garden hose only demonstrates gross laziness. Why is it that even when seeming to be helpful you must put your strange insulting slant on everything. You know nothing about people but offer them gratuitious insult anyway. If Fran is anything like the farming women I know round here she has been working from daylight til dark these last 50 years and is only now slowing down as her body just can't do it any more. regardless of the that you are such an ignorant, boorish oaf. Come back when you can be civil. David |
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