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Should I pH amend my acid soil?

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Placing leaves in bottom of hole

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Overcoming a difficult growing environment.

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Sandy soil missing key nutrients but don't want invasive

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Can a mucus problem help inoculate soil

10 replies 1

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scummy woods..

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Improving wet, clay soil in newly planted orchard - What plants, fungi, etc to use?

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Understanding Soil

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Help with amendments

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Official Geophagia and Dust Bathing Thread

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My First Bone Meal

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How many people intentionally include microbe inoculation when they plant?

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Webinar: What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health

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Lead contaminated soil and wildlife

16 replies

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Confused about soil health

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Solar cooking alternative to Slash and Burn horticulture.

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To make raised beds or not, that is the question...

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Potting Soil Recipes--What Are Yours?

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aerobic vs anaerobic soil. not even close to what you likely think.

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Fertilizer Shortage? I call BS!

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How Growing Plants builds soil health

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Simple soil amendments: manure, SCG, kelp, etc.?

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Adding sand .. is it a good idea?

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Deep compost/ mulch for fruit trees.

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Amending soil with Biochar. Discuss......

12 replies 1 1 5

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The Sad Legacy of Modern Ag

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Making use of garden waste producing biochar - feasible?

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Tidal forces and soil moisture

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Here is what's so bad about adding Nitrogen

7 replies 1 1

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Building heavy, acidic clay soil (ultisol)

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Doubt. Fertility on Fukuoka

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How much char by volume?

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Making potting soil from wood chips

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Jar test: Silt vs Clay

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Newbie questions on soil

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Using Clam Shells as Mineralizer

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For the Soil Gurus - A Couple of Newbie Questions About Silty Loams

21 replies 4

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Salinity super high soil test

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Could I make absolutely FREE quality potting mix from what's around?

11 replies 1 4

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Recycling old potting soil

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Soil blocks

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Any ideas what’s digging this hole?

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Caliche

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roofing debris all over garden beds; how worried should I be?

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Too much compost in the soil? Steve Solomon Intelligent gardener

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Propagate your own Rhizobia bacteria for seed inoculation?

7 replies

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Getting to know my soil on a detailed level

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Calcium magnesium soil test kit

17 replies 1 3

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Using Onions for Sulfur to Increase Acidity in Soil?

8 replies 1

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Help - can my soil be improved enough to plant a tree ASAP, using what's in my yard?

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Long term unintended (?) soil improvement

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How can I improve my compacted soil - without digging?

17 replies 1 3 4

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How to safely use chicken manure in my garden?

15 replies 3

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how does subsoil tillage build soil?

18 replies 3

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Building soil after pigs

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What to do with (bentonite) cat litter?

6 replies 1 2

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Must you add new nutrients to no-dig gardens?

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Can you introduce mycorrhizal fungi via compost tea?

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The problem with commercial agriculture

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Insulation Foam in Soil

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