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Hi Maggie,
Somehow your emails from BRAIN come to me occasionally.
I was reading your problem with the soil – surely it needs lots of organic matter to rebuild the soil structure and add micro-organisms. Without that the soil is lifeless as you seem to be describing.
Why not allowed to mulch? That I imagine must be because on a slope it would wash into a creek – if that is your situation. Though woody mulch may not be good enough for soil in this state, but it would eventually break down – better if not to thick and chunky.
Next best would be to chop up any weed material (minus seeds) and work into the soil around the plants. Also leave any leafy weed material to break down onsite over the area. Over time, with enough of this micro-org. will get back into the soil. Without these, the processes of getting food to the plants can’t occur.
All the best.
Cheers
Marie Hollingworth
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Hi Marina thanks.
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Greetings folks,
My tuppence!
In my experience, the turkeys tear up the mulch, the underlying soil surface (and regrettably the plants) regularly
The mulch and the superficial soil simply wash or migrate down the slope and get incorporated either into a nice soil layer further down, or washed away.
I don’t mulch any more because of this, but I had not heard that we were not allowed to mulch.
All the best,
Charlie Appleton
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Hi Maggie,
I think I attended meetings at some stage a few years back. Happy to get the emails and attempt ID at times as well as the wise advice from other members – all useful. I have run a bushcare site on a steep slope on Oxley Creek for about 12 years, but thankfully do not seem to have the raw difficulties of some of the sites I’ve visited on HB days. We have strong mangroves and Casuarinas along the creek and it is only in floods like 2011 that the mangroves will wash away exposing our plants.
After all this time we are beginning to see results from our work and sense a bit of relaxation appearing on the horizon. Thank goodness.
All the best
Marie
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