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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
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Hollywood Giant Grower
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North Hollywood, Ca
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I dug about 4 or 5 feet under the side of my melon plot again, this time not to kill the tree roots and get sand, but just to get sand. It took some work but when I hit the right spot I hit the jackpot. Pure nice sand just like you find at the beach. My place must have been covered by the ocean thousands or millions of years ago. I only got a bucket and a half of it, but I think it may make all the difference since the topsoil in my new melon plot is full of clay and silt and has poor drainage. I added some sand before, while I was digging deep along the side of the plot killing the tree roots, but I need a lot more. I have winter rye coming up right now and hopefully when I till that in a couple of months it will add some straw and help with the drainage as well. I'm going to use the one bucket full which is probably over 100 lbs and just lay it over everything. Then I will save the half bucket full for when I plant the melon seedlings so that the stump of the plant will stay dry and the soil around and underneath the main roots will drain well.
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