Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Mitt adding on to Jim's path find and arborist and get a load of shredded trees and work that into the soil along with a high nitrogen fertilizer. The enzymes in the soil will suck up most of the Nitrogen as they are munching on the tree mulch. This will in the long run ( like this time next year) give your garden a rich humus base be able to hold tons on moisture and increase the overall quality of the soil 10 fold. What ever you don't use in the garden add into the compost pile for next year.

  Many moons ago my back yard bore the same density as granite. Add water and it acted more like a blend of silly putty and salt water taffy. Not to mention that two thirds of the yard was a 60 degree slope. So I just buried it under 30 cubic yards of ground up trees and shrubs from a local tree remover place. Hey they were free. My crop that year was going to be a new garden with real soil. So over the top of the tree stuff I made my neighbors just love me with the addition of 5 yards of Cow and 5 yards of Horse and 5 yards of Chicken pooh semi composted. Then I started blending and watering and the micro organisms went nuts. Picture July temperature is 91 degrees out side at 11 am and there is steam coming off my yard. Hey it only got up to 187 degrees and stayed there for two weeks.....then by September it was down to 105. Then I started adding in leaves and grass clippings from the neighbors yards and then another layer of tree chips but this time
only 5 yards and then I just let it it do its thing. By mid January the soil temp was down to a comfortable 90 degrees plus or minus and though there was snow every where 2 to 4 inches thick there was nary a flake anywhere in my back yard but there was lots of wild life coming by for a nap or to just roll in the warmth. By the end of March the soil temp was a nice 65 degrees and I was planting my cool weather crops. That year was a fun Garden and very productive.

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From: The Miracle's <babycakes50@sbcglobal.net>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 12:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Organic_Gardening] My soil is too dense!


 
Hi Mitt,
I would add some shredded leaves and green sand also.

Jim
Zone 5a MI

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From: Mitt <mstehelin@yahoo.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, February 16, 2012 1:08:25 AM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] My soil is too dense!

How to lighten it up? I have added compost that is high in nitrogen. What else
can I do? Shredded paper?

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