Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[MROO]

FYI.... Yesterday I ran across an actual article with proper scientific published docs and some links that have a few interim published articles referenced in the middle about how the research has been going all year AND years before during MERS & previous SARS.

Subject for your curiosity:
sleep and melitonin, the circadian rhythm and the resting of the bodies immune system.

I emailed the article & link to myself for rereading later.... I'll try to post it *Late tonight or some point tomorrow.*

 

[electrycmonk]

Girl, you are lucky to have topsoil! We had some over in PA, but had that hard layer of clay and shale underneath. It was a start though and took amendments well. I could grow anything I wanted so long as it could take the climate and shorter season.

Not my pic below, but describes the area well. I've got a very similar but bigger bank to one side of my house where the house, driveway, and barn area was cut into the side of the ridge. When I had some driveway work done upon move in, the excavation opened up areas of much darker and redder clay. We also have more rocks and boulders here too, which were helpful to use down by the creek and for a natural retaining wall in front of the house. I've built that area up with compost and amendments so I could have flowerbeds.
It's all steep ridges and valleys here and any topsoil that was once here is long washed away from the hard rains so I had to have topsoil brought in, and I also made compost to create any garden areas.

I can't garden down by the creek because it floods a lot, but the soil down there is rather nice on top of the rockbed. If I still had my tractor I could bring some of that up here and I'd have wonderful raised beds. Anyway...here's what I'm working with now..

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I'm sorry but, I have to laugh at the pic you shared from the web.... Even though I totally know what you painted with words.... This pic reminds me of our "red river border with Oklahoma" and the majority of the OK hill country and TX hill country north of us. ITs ALL that massively red clay! Everywhere...

 

[electrycmonk]

Email didn't make it to inbox..... Thankfully I liked it & I believe retweet to bookmark it too. So I'll open twitter later today/tonight and hunt for it on the pc.... It's easier to hunt on desktop compared to mobile browser like here & now. Sorry for further delay.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I'm sorry but, I have to laugh at the pic you shared from the web.... Even though I totally know what you painted with words.... This pic reminds me of our "red river border with Oklahoma" and the majority of the OK hill country and TX hill country north of us. ITs ALL that massively red clay! Everywhere...

Well, that was a nice picture above...more often it looks like this (as you know) Thankfully I have lived on red clay before in NC and SC, so it wasn't a total shock!
Certainly a let down after all the wonderful loam of the Willamette Valley for sure!!

 

[MROO]

Well, that was a nice picture above...more often it looks like this (as you know) Thankfully I have lived on red clay before in NC and SC, so it wasn't a total shock!
Certainly a let down after all the wonderful loam of the Willamette Valley for sure!!

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After all of this, my soil is almost an embarrassment ... in a good way. I live at the very top of the Chesapeake Bay where five rivers converge in a very short length of waterway. We are prone to flooding, so I can't plant the back half of the property, so it's all natural woodland. The upper half, though, is all beautiful, black alluvial deposit. I can grow pretty much anything ... so what did i plant last year? Pretty much nothing but some sadly neglected tomatoes. Still, we had a really good yield. Maybe next year, I'll feel well enough to actually DO something with my yard ... other than let it take over ...

 

[SnapdragonQ]

After all of this, my soil is almost an embarrassment ... in a good way. I live at the very top of the Chesapeake Bay where five rivers converge in a very short length of waterway. We are prone to flooding, so I can't plant the back half of the property, so it's all natural woodland. The upper half, though, is all beautiful, black alluvial deposit. I can grow pretty much anything ... so what did i plant last year? Pretty much nothing but some sadly neglected tomatoes. Still, we had a really good yield. Maybe next year, I'll feel well enough to actually DO something with my yard ... other than let it take over ...

 

[Folly's place]

We have sandy loam topsoil, and then pure builder's sand below, as far as anyone here has dug. Down over twelve feet when our pond was dug, and no stones either. Lets just say it drains well, although the water table is pretty high.
Neighbors a mile away have clay...
I think glacial deposits, different in different areas, not far apart, in southern Michigan.
Mary

 

[SnapdragonQ]

After many years of work I had this at the old place, which started from that (you can still see the old well pump)

After getting here I started with this. I snapped up all the clearance bags of decent raised bed soil over the winter that I could and used a lot of my own amendments too, and made a tiny littler starter bed on top of the clay...

 

[BigBlueHen53]

After many years of work I had this at the old place, which started from that (you can still see the old well pump)
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After getting here I started with this. I snapped up all the clearance bags of decent raised bed soil over the winter that I could and used a lot of my own amendments too, and made a tiny littler starter bed on top of the clay...


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Boy, somebody was really blessed by your years of hard work at your old place! Sure hope they appreciated it!

 

[ChocolateMouse]

Man, not looking forward to moving for just this reason. I'm going to be loathe to build my soil all over again. ;O; (Pardon the weeds.)