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Originally Posted by seaeagle
After a few years of no tilling you can't compact your garden soil any more by walking on it than compacting your yard when you are walking across it. Tilling on the other hand really compacts your soil. Sure it looks all nice and fluffy right after you do it but wait until you have a hard rain.
As an experiment in a little area take a flat piece of land and till it and it will become a mud hole. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it.  |
This is what the problem is with deforestation of the amazon rain forest.
They go in clear out the land and the rain has nothing to slow it down so it compacts the more or less poor soil to the point it is useless for anything.
In a handful of years it is like red concrete.
The only good thing that has came out of the deforestation is they have found out just how advance and plentiful these people were many years ago.