Texas Gardening: quick dirt question, 1 by organic1

organic1 wrote:
You can't beat good quality composted animal manure. In the Dallas area, I go to Soil Buiding Systems. The best thing to do, in my opinion, is to improve the soil you have by adding good compost. Buy it in bulk if possible. Otherwise, apply dry molasses and or humate. Dry molasses at 15 lbs. per 1000 square feet and humate as the budget allows. Do not use any high nitrogen fertilizers, as they force plants to grow too fast resulting in weak, watery cells. Then come nature's clean-up crew (insect pest invasion) to take out the weak plants. If you try and control the insect pests by killing them, you will end up with a bigger mess. Nature has checks and balances. She's pretty darn smart.