>> .I thought I was nutso
>> and being OCD in everything that I do,
Join the club! In the garden, I call it "O. Seed D."
>> Hell of a topic to get so much discussion--SOIL!....Lol!.....Good luck guys!
Oh, NO! Soil is the most interesting part of gardening (to me)!
I love the fact that soil biology is so complicated that something like 90% of all soil microorganisms are so inter-dependent that they can't even be GROWN in a laboratory! Take that, over-proud scientists! It gives a new meaning to "dumber than dirt". Rocket scientists have it easy compared to soil biologists.
And yet, in Nature, if you drop a layer of duff and leaf litter, or make a compost pile out of kitchen garbage and scrap paper, then walk away, Abra-ca-Dabra, organisms we don't even have names for get together, cooperate productively and make a balanced, self-regulating system that produces fertile soil every time.
Congress should be as smart as those bacteria, fungi and protists ... but it isn't.
And drainage! I obsess on drainage. The void spaces (air and water channels - micro-pores and macro-pores) should be 50% of ideal soil, yet how do you add "nothing" to soil and make it stick?
