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  • 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



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