Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

At 11:34 PM 6/7/2008, you wrote:

> 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.

My beds are only two years old (this is the third season), and 
they're getting to that point, but it's probably going to take 
another year for them to be really soft and loose. I mulch heavily 
also, but this land was planted in tobacco, year after year for 
decades, and there is NO organic matter in it that I didn't put there.

Liz in SW VA
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