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  • From: "Melody O." <melody AT crecon.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Garden soil: it's much more than dirt
  • Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:33:17 -0700

At 08:54 PM 3/4/05 EST, James wrote:
>In a message dated 3/4/2005 5:24:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>melody AT crecon.com writes:
>
>
>> Thanks for the encouragement, but below are are the paragraphs that made me
>> wonder if I am adding too much of this, or not enough of that, and the
>> article stated that well-meaning gardeners might screw up more than they
>> are helping.
>>
>I read those too. It left me thinking that maybe Dr. Ribeiro might do well
>to add some of those concerns to the compost pile to enrich it. Sure, if
you
>dumped a 50 lb bag of lime and 10,000 egg shells on a small plot of
ground, you
>just might get too much calcium and screw things up. But life soil balances
>itself wonderfully and you'd really have to get up early in the morning,
pack
>a lunch, and work really hard at fouling up organic ground with organic
>materials.

LOL! OK, I won't stress and will just do my best.

Thanks, James.
Best wishes,
Melody




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