Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

My beds that have sufficient organic matter and stay mulched and moist 
through the summer don't need loosening next spring. I'll pull back the 
mulch, add a thin layer of composted manure and trace amounts of certain 
goodies, plant and remulch.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/7/2008 at 8:48 PM Liz wrote:

>At 11:37 AM 6/7/2008, you wrote:
>>What are folks' thoughts about broadforks?  Do they fit in the
>>"no-till" category?
>
>I'd like to know about that too. I don't have a broadfork, or at
>least not the Eliot Coleman variety (though I would have if they
>didn't cost so much), but I do have a smaller version that works very
>well. It's useless for breaking up the compacted clay cement we have
>for soil here, but once a bed is established, it works well to loosen
>the soil for the next season's planting, or for weeding.
>
>Liz in SW VA
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>