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  • From: Liz <liz@allslash.org>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Growing in our area/ was no-till and onsite slaughter
  • Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:04:28 -0500

At 06:51 AM 1/9/2008, you wrote:
I gotta tell you that 18" sounds like a real dream to us.  The soil here is 6" - 12" of poor clay on top of 500' of limestone.  Still, limestone is cracked and pretty porous.  Even without raised beds you can grow a garden.  With just 6" raised beds you can't tell that all that rock is down there.
 

Part of my garden is over a cap of soapstone, so I know exactly what you're talking about. And all of it started out as poor clay, further degraded by having been a tobacco field for decades. I can't rave enough about raised beds, and mine are only about 6" too. The first one is deeper than that, but I got lazy with the others.

Liz in SW VA
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com


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