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How am I gonna grow corn on two inches of topsoil?
Unless you live somewhere that sits on bedrock or whatever, I've heard some people plant daikon radishes for one season, then don't even harvest it and let it rot in the soil, and apparently, it's a good first step to turning compacted dirt into healthy soil.
I've also seen people plant corn in raised beds, so that's always an option.
That’s gonna smell great
If you're farming, there's gonna be some smells.
Ok fuck your lawn then, where do I sign up for the banh mi pickle air freshener?
It’s okay I don’t like my neighbors anyway.
Should be just enough. Plant at 2 inches deep and Just go wide (4-6ft) on the row & column spacing to allow them to spread out their roots horizontally.
Fold the corn stubble back into the soil at the end of the year to (slightly) increase soil depth for next year. Probably too shallow to do radishes as a cover crop for the first couple years. But you should be able to build things up eventually.
Great tip, but I like the daikon radish idea better
LMAO, that's what I get for not refreshing before I post.
Do some raised bed stuff. Make some areas 4 inches deep. Or hugelkultur it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCgelkultur
This Boomer HOA's...
2 inches of topsoil over packed clay, rock and sand.
They took the topsoil off some of the richest farmland in the world and sell it back to us.
Suburbs are the worst.
every year i buy a few bags on topsoil and spread it on the parts of the lawn that refuse to grow well. after a couple of years of that fertalizer started being far more effective :)
so i have a friend who wrote a textbook on turning your yard into a garden you could live off of, if you've got about half an acre to an acre i think, it's been a while since i read the intro. you have to dig rows and such but it's doable. takes a few hours of work every day. dude grew the best watermelons
A few hours of chorin’ a day is exactly the kind of fitness plan I could get into.
Too bad I kill plants so bad my wife calls me Roundup.
so the textbook is just a hundred or so double sided letter sized pages (or the first edition is, idk about second edition), is available for 20 bucks on amazon, free pdf on amazon unlimited, and sales go to support his surviving wife and ND daughter. I'd put a link up but i know how mods get about links to stuff where you can buy things.