Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

FYI that was what I replied to, not what I wrote

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 11/26/2010 at 2:37 PM Harvey Ussery wrote:

>On 11/25/2010 05:38 PM, Tradingpost wrote:
>> I water some crops, but most of our gardening utilizes the dust mulch
>method. . .
>
>With Paul, I have always found this notion of a "dust mulch" not only 
>pretty much voodoo, but counter to everything I know about actual 
>behavior of soil. Where is the most bioactive part of the soil profile? 
>Right at the *surface*. Why would anyone think it's a good idea to *dry* 
>that part of the soil community's habitat? And I question whether a 
>"dust mulch" could possibly retain more moisture in the soil than an 
>organic mulch--or even a canopy of closely planted crops in a bed.
>
>~Harvey
>
>
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