Needs Organic Matter

Categories: Soils, Fertilizers and Irrigation

I have what I believe to be decomposed sandstone. Many rocks are still

projecting out of land which I blast and break up. The soil works freely

when moist or wet, but when dry it takes a pick-axe to dig it up; a plow

won't touch it. Among my young fruit trees I tried to grow peas, beans,

carrots and beets, and although I freely irrigated them during the

summer and fall, and although I planted at different times, my peas and
< r /> beans have been a total failure, and the beets, carrots and onions

nearly so. For years the land has grown nothing but weeds.



Your soil needs organic matter which would make it more easy of

cultivation, more retentive of moisture, and in every way better suited

to the growth of plants. Liberal applications of stable manure would

produce best effects. No commercial fertilizer would begin to be so

desirable. If you can dig into the soil large amounts of weeds or other

vegetable waste material, you would be proceeding along the same line,

but stable manure is better on account of its greater fertilizing

content. You ought to be thankful that the soil has spunk enough to grow

weeds. The Immanent Creator is still doing the best he can to help you

out; take a hand yourself on the same line.