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Dec 15, 2011 5:54 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
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>> Your property must look like a botanical garden.

Nahh, more like a dirt yard that only sells clay. Due to bulldozers when the manufactured home park was built, not even weeds thrive in my native clay sub-soil, which is the top layer.

So I have to screen out 20-60% stones, rocks and gravel, just to improve it to level of "raw sticky clay".

Then I add 50% to 100% of amendments to brind it up to the level of "poor, clayey almsot sterile semi-soil".

Then it still needs lots of organics and microbes and mellowing before you could call it "poor heavy soil".

My best bed, amended and turned for 3 years, is now "not-too-bad-soil", but still heavy and could use a foot of compost easy.



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