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Old January 29, 2017   #6
Worth1
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I went to a town garden event and they had hilled up all of the plants in rows including the tomatoes.
And I mean like dikes they were so tall.
This was in Austin where it is dry in the summer.
This is exactly what you don't want to do here.

Also this soil was well drained sandy loam.
It seemed as thought everyone was listening to the speaker and what to do and how to do it.
Everything this guy said and the folks hung on to was wrong an many ways.
I wont list them all.'
I will say I just walked away.

Hilling in the deep south is for wet soggy black clay like soil like on the coast where it rains a lot.
Just the opposite is true for many parts of where I live but not all.
You have to know your soil and what it does.
Hilling also allows the hill part of the soil to warm up faster.
Where I live I cant count how many types of soil there is in a one mile radius of me.

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