http://www.davidbach.net/wiki/ 2026-04-19T21:02:21+00:00 http://www.davidbach.net/wiki/ http://www.davidbach.net/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2025-07-21T18:04:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:intro:soil:other&rev=1753121065&do=diff Other types of "soil" Garden Soil I've used a number of bags labeled Garden Soil for leveling and with amendments for transplanting native bare root plants. I have no idea how it compares with Earth soil. Three-way topsoil This is a commercial name for an indeterminate mix of earth soil (maybe), sand, compost (maybe), shredded forest products, bark and who knows what else. There is no standard. What one company sells by this name may look and be quite different from that sold by another comp… text/html 2025-07-22T19:03:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:intro:soil:pseudosoil&rev=1753211026&do=diff "Pseudo soils" Seed starting mix Seed starting mix is a “soil-less,” light-weight growing medium that does not contain: * Fertilizer which may cause burning or stunting of seeds * Clay which can hold too much moisture * Organic elements, which can separate seeds from the medium text/html 2020-04-04T00:38:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:intro:soil:quality&rev=1585960695&do=diff Soil fertility A neighbor said glibly, if it grow grass it can grow vegetables. And he insists the depleted soil in my garden is great soil. (Yes, it is physically great being sandy loam, but it wasn't fertile when I began working it and fertility is what makes for healthy, organic vegetables.) text/html 2019-01-09T19:48:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:intro:soil:remineralization&rev=1547063293&do=diff Remineralization Steve Solomon and Erica Reinheimer in their book The Intelligent Gardeneer are promoting remineralization of garden soil. Basically their approach assumes that there is an optimal level of each of about a dozen minerals and that by soil testing and applying their formulas I can greatly improve my soil and grow nutrient-dense vegetables in it. I have a number of reservations about the practicality of their approach, but I'm going to give it my best shot in 2015. Since I began ga… text/html 2019-01-09T19:49:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:intro:soil:residents&rev=1547063347&do=diff Those who live in the soil I read that there are hundreds of animals that life in a healthy soil. I've seen only a few and some I know are not helping me grow. So all I really know is to encourage soil fertility with its diversity of micro-organisms. Some of these are fungi, some bacteria, some insects, and so on. text/html 2025-07-17T21:39:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) http://www.davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:intro:soil:types&rev=1752788393&do=diff "Earth soil" This is only a brief introduction to the physical components of soil. Essential components of soil are at least sand, silt and clay. The relative proportion of those components determines the physical nature of the soil. The range of earth soils I work with go from sandy loam (primarily sand and silt, with a small amount of clay) to predominately clay (very little sand and silt and lots of clay).