Childhood indoctrination

[The Grand Nudger]

Thing is .... I wouldn't presume to know what your "backyard soil structure" is like and like yourself would love to know more. Here I can tell you it is sand; high mineral content and high iron content but low nutrient...basically add cow poo and stand back!

I came from sand down in FL. Pros and cons to that. Nutrient content is definitely a con
(ever wonder, or where you already aware of, the driving factor in -why- sandy soils are notoriously short of nutrients and simultaneously famously alkaline? Fascinating stuff if you ask me.)

As I intimated before we are lucky to have anything resembling "top soil" here to a depth of about 30cms (12 inches) Clay is virtually unheard of except in small isolated pockets as can be identified by the range of flora growing in the vicinity. See the white strip? That's where the tide has gone out and hasn't come back since millenia ago. Limestone sand isn't THAT bad but then again it isn't the type of "soil" that will feed multitudes (either with veggies or meat protein)

Well, don't go bemoaning your lack of clay too stridently. I could bake a jar out of any given handful of dirt round these parts. Loaded with nutrients and generally very moist...but here's the rub. The clay forms such a tight bond with the water that the salinity in the root structure of my plants is often incapable of separating the two - and since the water is used as the medium to convey nutrients from one place to another....they don't get any of those either..lol.

Rgr that about feeding the multitudes. Resources are limited and not evenly distributed. Just to try and keep this thread at least near the rails - I sometimes wonder how much of what we absorb as children leads us to conclude that the earth is even -capable- of providing for us left to it's own devices.