On 16.05.15 12:16, Gene Heskett wrote: > All I have here is yellow clay gumbo thats darned near sterile, > growing only weeds. Last garden I planted had 35 feet of woven wire > holding up the peas, and another 35 feet holding up some half-runners. > I got 1, 5 qt saucepan of peas and beans combined. 10 lb bag of seed > taters gave maybe 5 lbs of marbles. A dozen hills of sweet corn grew > one ear.
Needs more than a roll pin to fix that, Gene - a ton of gypsum to break up the clay, plus a couple of tons of rotted straw/hay, and a ton or two of cow manure (not too fresh). Plough it all in deep, and let sit over autumn/winter. May need to repeat after a couple of years. Mixing in quite a few tons of sand helps too, but is more work. It's done on farms here, shifting from one part of the farm to another, and boosts production measurably. Mind you, the potatoes are more easily grown in a straw-covered mix of straw and old cow manure, laid on a layer of newspapers, even over concrete. A foot-thick layer is good. Lift a handful of straw, harvest a tater or two, rub 'em spotless on your shirtsleeve if you can see a speck on 'em. Just don't let the chooks in, whatever you do. Erik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
