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You don’t need native soil. Compost, manure, and off season ground cover crops that are mulched into native soil do just fine. Where I live in the South there’s
by wil421 7y ago
You don’t need native soil. Compost, manure, and off season ground cover crops that are mulched into native soil do just fine. Where I live in the South there’s lots of red clay but if you provide amendments you will do fine. Your county dump will probably provide compost for free. California provides food for a massive portion of the county but without us providing water it would be too arid for most corps.
- burnte 7y agoI didn't say anything about "native" soil, just that it's land that hasn't been used agriculturally. Yeah, we can put compost, manure, nitrogen, etc in the soil, but you can't artificially recreate the microbiome and micro-nutrient mixture that nature creates over eons.