Tag: Puget Lowland Soil
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Done Well, Forest Restoration Includes Caring for the Soil
The rate of topsoil formation in our region is painfully slow – less than 1” every 2,000 years. Only 7” has accumulated (at most) since the last glacier retreated 15,000 years ago.
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Preserving Topsoil Versus Removing Ivy
Which is more important, preserving topsoil or removing blankets of Ivy? Before, I would have said removing the Ivy, but now I’m not so sure.
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Goodbye Humus
I’ve been working on a blog about humus for several weeks (not the chickpea paste spelled with two “ems” but the “mysterious elixir” in soil). What I learned, to my surprise, was that humus probably never existed in the first place . . .
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Beneath Our Feet – Microbes that Eat Rocks
scientists added lithotrophic bacteria to crushed rocks and waited 30 months
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Getting Into Soil
Pause for a moment and ask yourself, what is it about good soil that attracts us?