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Kenda Mutongi's avatar

This is so good, Kate. Also known as gut feeling. No? Thanks for reminding us to trust ourselves a bit more.

Kate Brown's avatar

Yes. Gut feeling is a great way to describe it. If we are drawn to soil to feel it and smell it, it is probably good.

Helsinki Henry's avatar

I think we often call it gut feeling, or subconscious, but it's really experience. Years of seeing variations on a baseline. I can't do it in the garden, yet, but I was a rock climber for 20 years, and I can tell you how a cliff face will feel from 200 metres away.

Henrietta Cosentino's avatar

This is very enlightening. I’d never thought of soil as delicious but now I see the possibilities. Our soil is extremely sandy—our garden close to the water and needs tremendous enhancement. I wonder if you have thoughts about the health of that kind of soil...

Kate Brown's avatar

Sandy soil can be great to grow in. It’s good to build up a filth by piling up in beds about six inches of compost. Let that sit for a few months and keep adding to it after each planting and you will have nice produce