What color is your soil?

plantoid 8/20/2020, 1:09 pm

Almost black still flecked with bits of vermiculite after ten years or so & zillions of worms in the top foot , below that it's a greyish to light brown colour & slightly compacted but still with evidence of vermiculite and still very porous . Carrots & parsnip grow down into it if I let them .

OhioGardener 8/20/2020, 4:14 pm

Sounds good! Not sure how far down the dark, loose soil is in mine now. The beds are 18" high, and they are sitting on our good old Ohio clay soil. As far down as I dig in the beds, the soil is nearly black. When I pull up carrots, the soil that comes up their roots is just as black as it is on top. When I sent in a soil test this past fall, nearly a year ago, the report said the organic content was 6%, which I was very happy with.

I went out and took a picture of the soil in the bed that is open and waiting for me to start the fall planting. The soil is nearly as dark as the black drip line.

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