purpleinopp ..........
Thank you. Using compost to build soil is exactly the theory behind my mulching twice a year. I cannot create enough compost for the whole garden, so I have to go out and gather/glean materials for the beds. It's impossible to dig anything into the stuff, so everything gets put on top.
I got the idea from Ruth Stout's book How To Have A Green Thumb Without an Aching Back. In a way she was a pioneer about mulch gardening. Of course, her own garden had been tilled every spring for years before she started mulch gardening, but it's still the best way I could figure out about how to turn stuff into soil.
It's working. It just takes a lot of hard labor and time.
Smiles,
Lyn
