Succession: Creating New Soils and Soil Types (Why care about Succession?)
Soil building or re-building. There are two places where succession becomes important in any gardener’s arsenals of tools. Succession can tell you what plants can be put together for companion planting. And what things will change over time in your yard. It’s like a blueprint of time. Plants are grouped into categories of plants. These [...]
A Soil Creation Recipe
This post describes making usable soil from forgotten or dead soil (clay and sand). Examples of dirt or soils that can be used for this recipe can come from excavated basements, stripped under top soil, waste soil from piles of unwanted fill dirt. This recipe will make usable soil by plants certain plants in a [...]
Using Succession in the Home Garden
When starting to learn how to make new soil, it is easier to start with Secondary Succession. (Primary Succession would require a lot more water and time. You would have to start with fixing bacteria like cyanobacteria and others). For information on how to make new soil from old and dead soil without compost or [...]
Creating New Soil
Currently, Permiculterists have always claimed that they recovered land or improved soil by adding amendments to soil. They have added everything from rich compost to wood chips to any organic material that makes things grow. All or most is waste products from arborists, kitchens and landscaping companies and etc…. After 6 months, the land produces [...]