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Compared my backyard soil test to a patch that's been untouched for 15 years and the difference was brutal
The dirt near my compost pile still had worms and that dark crumbly smell while the lawn area was basically gray dust with zero life in it, has anyone else noticed how compacted topsoil just gives up after enough lawn chemicals?
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wendy1311mo ago
Honestly, @morgan.rose hit the nail on the head with the lasagna layering thing. Tried something similar on my own dead patch last year, just piled on cardboard and fallen leaves, and by spring it was full of worms and actually smelled like dirt again. Ngl, way easier than all the bagged amendments I used to waste money on.
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paul_taylor211mo ago
My buddy Mark let his vegetable plot go fallow for two years while he was traveling for work. When he came back, the soil was so hard you could barely get a shovel in six inches. He dug up the whole thing by hand and mixed in a bunch of composted leaves and manure. It took him a whole summer, but now that spot grows better tomatoes than the part he'd been tending with store-bought fertilizer the whole time.
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morgan.rose1mo ago
Had the same thing happen with my own garden bed a few years back. I let it sit through a rainy winter and the soil turned into basically adobe bricks. Ended up doing a lasagna layering thing with cardboard, grass clippings, and coffee grounds from the local shop. By spring the worms had moved in and the soil was fluffy again. Worked way better than all the bagged stuff I'd been buying before.
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