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Steve Miller
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Good news for the gardeners in the crowd:

Antidepressant Microbes In Soil: How Soil Makes Your Brain Happy


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Unless you live in Butte Montana, where the soil also contains zinc, arsenic and lead... HairRaising


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Not ours. Clay, clay, and rocks.


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20 inches of great topsoil here, used to be a farm. House was built in 1960, before they started stripping the topsoil off and carting it away like they do now.

Gardening in Door County was a disaster. Glaciers leave rocks behind and you have to use a pickax to get them out of the ground. No fun.

I make some killer compost. Gardener's gold, and it has such a great aroma.


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Originally posted by wtg:
Gardening in Door County was a disaster. Glaciers leave rocks behind and you have to use a pickax to get them out of the ground. No fun.
Class A-B glacial till here, too. You loosen it with a pick and then use a shovel.

I've been composting for years. I have a huge brush pile in the back yard that has also become home to birdies, bunnies, and probably a few rats and raccoons, too. When we move out of here, I'm going to be sorry to leave it behind. I may empty the actual compost bins into a truck and take it to our new home if it's not too far away.


But I do always feel better after a day of playing in the dirt.


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