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Old June 10, 2018   #7
Worth1
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I grow in containers and raised beds because my soil sucks big time and I mean big time.
The other reason is where I do have good soil it is too shady for just about anything.
Now if I were to drive down the hill to the other street they have wonderful sandy loam bottom soil.

As far as here I have seen people grow in raised beds and containers for no reason at all and have looked past some of the best soils we have in Texas simply because they think soil has to be fluffy.
This is the famous Houston black soil scattered around Texas.
And the vertisols plus many others.

Much if not most of it used to be farm land and with proper maintenance can be brought back to the way is was before it was farmed.

Where I live there was some sort of glacial outflow or something that happened many years ago that deposited round river rocks all over the place plus rolling hills and deposits of sand.
This must have been one heck of an event on a very large scale that happened several times from looking at the horizons of the soils.
This all after the place was covered in ocean at one time.


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