Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>]

Have you concidered biennial sweet clover Liz?  Supposed to go down 6 feet 
the second year.

aliza
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Liz" <liz@allslash.org>
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" 
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Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Growing in our area/ was no-till and onsite 
slaughter


> At 03:48 PM 1/8/2008, you wrote:
>
> >  However, I won't double-dig because the
> > subsoil is only six inches down, and I have to build up instead.
>
> I keep telling the local folk that decades of tractor plowing the
> land I'm gardening now has created a permanent cement-like layer
> about 18" down, and that's one reason I was using raised beds. The
> response I got? "But if you had someone plow it for you, you wouldn't
> have all that work to build raised beds!"
>
> Sigh. I planted cardoon and jerusalem artichokes and some kind of
> Chinese radish that's supposed to go down four or five feet. I'm
> hoping those will at least help break up that subsoil layer.
>
> Liz in SW VA
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