[Homestead] [Fwd: Re: Increasing Fertility]

Lynn Wigglesworth lynnw1366 at hotmail.com
Mon Nov 17 11:13:09 EST 2008


Northern NJ has some very nasty red clay soil. I went to school there, and 
after a hard rain, the rivers turn red with run off.

Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob ford" <bobford79 at yahoo.com>
To: <vdjor at yahoo.com>; <homestead at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] [Fwd: Re: Increasing Fertility]


> Where it was exposed was usually in the lower areas and the wetter area, 
> you see it a lot in the rural 'ditches'.  I did not know that red dirt was 
> that far north to be in the midwest.  I always thought it was a Southern 
> soil feature, like weeping willows, dogwoods, and moss covered cyprus 
> trees would be a Southern forest feature ......bobford
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> --- On Mon, 11/17/08, VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor at yahoo.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Homestead] [Fwd: Re:  Increasing Fertility]
>> To: bobford79 at yahoo.com
>> Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 8:42 AM
>> --- On Mon, 11/17/08, bob ford <bobford79 at yahoo.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > I didn't realize red clay would be that far north.
>>  Red
>> > Clay or as said in youth, "red dirt" means
>> > 'home'. ..............bobford
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>> We had redclay here in Mo but it had to be exposed by
>> erosion or digging.  Was that the case in the south, that
>> large areas had been eroded, or was red clay the natural
>> soil there?
>> Van Dell
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