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  • From: "Aliza" <realfood@wonderfulfarm.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Growing in our area/ was no-till and onsite slaughter
  • Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 20:21:26 -0800

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" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
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
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com

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