Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

I always get a kick out of your comments Jeff. Many thanks.

Dave in the Adirondacks

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Jeff Strong <jeff_faithwalker@yahoo.com>wrote:

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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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!
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> Hi Mitt,
> I would add some shredded leaves and green sand also.
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> 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
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> Subject: [Organic_Gardening] My soil is too dense!
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> How to lighten it up? I have added compost that is high in nitrogen. What
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> can I do? Shredded paper?
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