Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Don't know your situation, but the blackberries might be the best thing 
growing there. I don't know of any quick and easy way to add anything to 
miserable soil to make it good soil.  Good soil is easy to work with once you 
get there but it takes some time and investment to get there.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not 
television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only 
those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about it.
   - Aldo Leopold in  Round River, 1933
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On 5/25/2006 at 10:37 PM Amanda Peck wrote:

>I've got a large and neglected field up the hill, just got some of the
>privet and blackberries bush-hogged.
>
>Next task may be a huge stand of poison ivy, surrounding a wet-weather
>pond.
>
>Would corn gluten help and--to keep on topic--help build the probably
>miserable soil up there?
>
>My first thought turned out to be a bit unpractical--a friend has the
>goats,
>would be very happy to bring them over, but no electricity up there,
>haven't
>found (affordable or not, actually) a solar electric fence that's listed
>for
>goats.
>
>I'm open to suggestion.  Black plastic covered by bark mulch might get
>what's not in the pond or surrounded by hackberry trees.
>
>