Beginner Gardening: A Continuum of Gardeners and Gardening - it takes all types!, 1 by carrielamont

carrielamont wrote:
OK, June, I agree with you. I didn't mean everybody has to spend years building up their soil, but here in suburban Boston, unless you plant things that do well on years of builders' debris, it's a good idea. We have naturally crummy rocky soil. (One of the reasons "young men" were constantly going West!) Not much grows in my yard unless I at least loosen the dirt a little, and amending it a little is a favored alternative to planticide. That's one of the reasons I'm so crazy for containers.

xxx, Carrie