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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: square foot gardening
Message-ID: <2651@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 13:42:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 13:42:22 1986
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References: <6787@duke.UUCP> <25900019@gypsy.UUCP> . . . <1570@ihlpg.UUCP>
Organization: Circle C Shellfish Ranch, Shores-of-the-Pacific, Ca
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Summary: Use sand.  Peat moss may be OK, but put some sand in with it!

In article <1570@ihlpg.UUCP>, timborn@ihlpg.UUCP (Tim Born) writes:
> > 
> > 2)  If you don't have access to large quantities of compost or other organic
> > material, apply THREE INCHES of peat moss! (...)
> 
> If you have a clay soil, that implies to me (among other things), a drainage
> problem.  It would seem that peat moss would be about the last thing you would
> want in your clay, since it holds water like a sponge.  What do the rest
> of you think?  Is peat moss in clay soil a good idea or not?
> 
Peat moss will help at first.  Eventually it will break down though.
If you don't want to add alot more each year, use sand.  It takes an
enormous quantity (I use 3 units of sand to one of clay soil and
one of compost).  But you end up with a wonderful soil that drains
well.
-- 
E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

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