by pa_friendly_guy » Sat Feb 04, 2012 12:05 pm
Yes, it seems to be that easy. Mulch is the key. I have believed that for years. I use chopped up leaves, and grass clippings because that is what I have. I get alot of them from the 40 or so mature trees in the yard and the yard I mow. They are free to me, and therefore the BEST mulch for me. Use what ever you have , what ever you can get, but mulch to improve the soil. Matt talked about my old friend Rocco and was surprised by a very small piece of land producing a great garden for over 100 years. It is not because we have such great soils here in Pa. It is because Rocco and his family have been putting something back into the soil each and every year that they have taken produce off the land. We can't take, take, take with out returning something. Mulch does that for us. It came from the ground, so it can go back into the ground. Its just that simple. I don't know all of the chemistry involved. I don't know all of the science to prove how or why it works. I just see my tomato plants and compair them with my next door neighbors plants. Organic Gardening works, and mulch is the key to that process.
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