Well, I was looking at Ruth Stout's soil with complete envy... We don't have anything that comes close to looking like that...

I am harvesting a little top soil here and a little there with my tractor... The top soil in these parts, if there is any at all is about an inch deep before hitting shale... Shale is like concrete and won't even grow weeds... I'm finding that top soil back in the woods under the leaves...

We'll have to find some course sand and once I think I have about enough top soil to fill a 40 X 20 raised bed 8 inches deep then I'll mix the top soil and sand and fill it and see how it does...

Like Mrs. Stout, we mulch with straw... I've grown taters in straw, too, but find I get more yield out of pulling up loose mounds and planting in them...

Thanks, Magz, for the link...


B~