Just saw this one.
HAVE THAT SOIL TESTED! It could be as bad as an old orchard.
If its not toxic, bulldoze the wood out of the way, mix in the compost and
go to town...
----McG
PS: with hoop houses, of course....
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From: <giventr...@aol.com>
To: <community_garden@list.communitygarden.org>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 2:12 PM
Subject: [Community_garden] restoration
Was hoping to get comment and feed back on restoring soils, I'm
contemplating taking on an old nursery/garden center. I know for sure,
there have been
many (20 plus) years of pesticide and herbicide use, the soils, if you
could
call them that are rocky, clay at best, this is where they stored or
'healed
in' root balls of trees and shrubs from all over the country.
I thought I read a suggestion that one could just 'build on top' of the
old
soil, if so how deep? If I have some of the old stuff removed, how far
down? There are also huge chunks of wood, from a large grade chipper, no
doubt
beetle invested pine. No a small project, I'm guessing about a half an
acre.
It would be very expensive to import all new soils, but I do have a line
on
some grade A1 compost. (as organic as you can find bulk compost) there's
not
enough time in the season up here to do cover crops, and grow after that,
certainly a good place to start where I can't afford to build up
important...
Also, any recommendations for short season, cold tolerant cover crops?
Thanks,
Tina
7,000 feet up in the Rockies
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