From: Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Earth charity
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:59:39 -0800
At 1/31/2008, you wrote:
It's a lovely idea and I wish it could be proved true. High-organic-
content soil is good for many reasons: erosion resistance,
microorganism health, drainage, oxygen pathways, and not least, plant
food production.
But the carbon in this dead zone is unavailable to plants except as water
storage. The carbon and nitrogen are food for the microbes that break them
down to make them available to growing plants.