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On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

2. Always covered soil/armour your soil (mulches, living plants, physical cover). Sun, wind, and rain ravage bare soil and create problems over time.
3. Green all year. Have live plants with roots 365 days/year: grow multi-species cover crops, some that can survive winter. Roots feed and support microbes/"biology". If you can, have a section of garden that stays in temporary cover for a season or two and rotate into that. Plant multi-species cover on the spot you rotated out of.
4. Avoid "synthetics" whenever possible. I don't care what the experts say, they mess with the system balance. Technically everything does, even stuff considered "organic". Chemicals, especially the 'cides, are just really really good at it at destroying soil life.
Watch Carbonomics by Keith Burns. It will explain the relationship between plants, roots, and microbes.
Diversity, see above.

Lastly, keep asking questions and reading/watching.

5/4/2020 5:44:35 PM

Lebanon, Oregon

Excellent read Marv. Thank you.
Here is the link to Carbonomics by Keith Burns.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N1U6yhwafbY

5/4/2020 9:11:42 PM

Reading, Pennsylvania

mark thanks all info. where r u at in pa I live in reading pa Exeter 19606

5/5/2020 6:53:41 PM

Reading, Pennsylvania

sorry marv spell correct

5/5/2020 6:54:47 PM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

Hollidaysburg, PA 16648

5/5/2020 7:48:35 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

Hi Craig I’m near Kutztown. Good to have you here.
Jim Gerhardt

5/9/2020 9:17:26 AM