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Re: [Livingontheland] Improving the water-retention properties of the soil

From: Gloria Baikauskas <gcb49@flash.net>
To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Improving the water-retention properties of the soil
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 19:01:46 -0800 (PST)

The more plant material is in the soil, on the soil, the more it retains water. This has been proven by Albrecht <U of Missouri> and can be found in his papers on drought...myths of drought....something like that at http://www.soilandhealth.org the online free library. He did studies using side by side I think corn fields.

IOW...the manure, etc, is not as important as the plant material that is decaying.

Gloria, Texas

[Livingontheland] Improving the water-retention properties of the soil, Dieter Brand, 02/07/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] Improving the water-retention properties of the soil, Tradingpost, 02/07/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] Improving the water-retention properties of the soil, Ken Hargesheimer, 02/07/2007
- Re: [Livingontheland] Improving the water-retention properties of the soil, Gloria Baikauskas, 02/08/2007