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[Chechem]

Big hint: poppies in their hair.

They're shooting smack?

Just predicting what our resident morning-lady-pic critic might find for comment. 

How about "Look at the size of those feet."

Here we go.

[ssmith general]

Big hint: poppies in their hair.

They're shooting smack?

Just predicting what our resident morning-lady-pic critic might find for comment. 

How about "Look at the size of those feet."

Here we go.

Did someone punch her in the eye?

Where is WV?  I want to ask him if he voted for Dukakis in 1988. 

[Chechem]

Ok, so if I was going to buy 1 truck to help my crappy soil, would you get sand or topsoil?  They are about the same price here.

bump.

Sorry, missed that.

1. For what?  Obviously, to grow stuff, topsoil.
2. Sand isn't sand.  When I buy a load of it, they sell masonry sand (expensive, but pure) and what they just call "sand".  "Sand" is impure, has bits of gravel, some clay, and doesn't work well for people buying sand for (say) as kid's sandbox.  It's just fill.
3.  I can't buy "topsoil" here.  They've got "fill dirt".  Topsoil here must come from a nursery.

BTW, I found pics of wheat fields in Lancaster, California with poppies: Click here for link

[ssmith general]

Ok, so if I was going to buy 1 truck to help my crappy soil, would you get sand or topsoil?  They are about the same price here.

bump.

Sorry, missed that.

1. For what?  Obviously, to grow stuff, topsoil.
2. Sand isn't sand.  When I buy a load of it, they sell masonry sand (expensive, but pure) and what they just call "sand".  "Sand" is impure, has bits of gravel, some clay, and doesn't work well for people buying sand for (say) as kid's sandbox.  It's just fill.
3.  I can't buy "topsoil" here.  They've got "fill dirt".  Topsoil here must come from a nursery.

BTW, I found pics of wheat fields in Lancaster, California with poppies: Click here for link

Just to mix in to help drainage.  I am just thinking out-loud of solutions for the back yard.  Sodding is another.  Once it is dry and scraped down tha clay will be like cement.

Why cant you buy topsoil?

[Chechem]

Big hint: poppies in their hair.

They're shooting smack?

Just predicting what our resident morning-lady-pic critic might find for comment. 

How about "Look at the size of those feet."

Here we go.

Did someone punch her in the eye?

Where is WV?  I want to ask him if he voted for Dukakis in 1988. 

Warning: sarcasm.  Seems likely. 

Warning: sarcasm again.  Michael Dukakis: I can't believe I'm losing to this guy.

[2Stater]

WV was one of the few blue states during that election.

[Chechem]

Ok, so if I was going to buy 1 truck to help my crappy soil, would you get sand or topsoil?  They are about the same price here.

bump.

Sorry, missed that.

1. For what?  Obviously, to grow stuff, topsoil.
2. Sand isn't sand.  When I buy a load of it, they sell masonry sand (expensive, but pure) and what they just call "sand".  "Sand" is impure, has bits of gravel, some clay, and doesn't work well for people buying sand for (say) as kid's sandbox.  It's just fill.
3.  I can't buy "topsoil" here.  They've got "fill dirt".  Topsoil here must come from a nursery.

BTW, I found pics of wheat fields in Lancaster, California with poppies: Click here for link

Just to mix in to help drainage.  I am just thinking out-loud of solutions for the back yard.  Sodding is another.  Once it is dry and scraped down tha clay will be like cement.

Why cant you buy topsoil?

1. Mix for drainage, I'd get sand.  Sodding, sand.  You'll need it.  Problem is, you're at the mercy of the dirt seller (his interpretation of "topsoil" and "sand".  Be ready for disappointment, unless you can see it first.

2.  There's hardly any topsoil in this region.  Old guys say, "The 200 years of cotton farming ate it up."  More likely the erosion sent it down the Tallahatchie and other rivers.  Big-time erosion here all during the 19th century and early 20th.  No topsoil to be scraped and sold.

3.  Best topsoil for flower beds is the bagged Miracle Grow.  Costs $10 per bag, but can mix with cheap bagged topsoil and get instant perfect bed.

[ssmith general]

Ok, so if I was going to buy 1 truck to help my crappy soil, would you get sand or topsoil?  They are about the same price here.

bump.

Sorry, missed that.

1. For what?  Obviously, to grow stuff, topsoil.
2. Sand isn't sand.  When I buy a load of it, they sell masonry sand (expensive, but pure) and what they just call "sand".  "Sand" is impure, has bits of gravel, some clay, and doesn't work well for people buying sand for (say) as kid's sandbox.  It's just fill.
3.  I can't buy "topsoil" here.  They've got "fill dirt".  Topsoil here must come from a nursery.

BTW, I found pics of wheat fields in Lancaster, California with poppies: Click here for link

Just to mix in to help drainage.  I am just thinking out-loud of solutions for the back yard.  Sodding is another.  Once it is dry and scraped down tha clay will be like cement.

Why cant you buy topsoil?

1. Mix for drainage, I'd get sand.  Sodding, sand.  You'll need it.  Problem is, you're at the mercy of the dirt seller (his interpretation of "topsoil" and "sand".  Be ready for disappointment, unless you can see it first.

2.  There's hardly any topsoil in this region.  Old guys say, "The 200 years of cotton farming ate it up."  More likely the erosion sent it down the Tallahatchie and other rivers.  Big-time erosion here all during the 19th century and early 20th.  No topsoil to be scraped and sold.

3.  Best topsoil for flower beds is the bagged Miracle Grow.  Costs $10 per bag, but can mix with cheap bagged topsoil and get instant perfect bed.

Hmm... so what do you think a truck of good topsoil would go for up there?  You can get land in west alabama for next to nothing (less than 1000 an acre).

We buy a lot of bagged soil.  Typically the "in ground" miracle grow that you mix with native.  

Oh, the top soil is "screened" and from a local guy, the sand is from a concrete company, the same one that sells me gravel and crusher run.

[BAMAWV]

If we put an outboard motor on her shoe box, we could ALL go fishing.

[ssmith general]

If we put an outboard motor on her shoe box, we could ALL go fishing.

 

[Chechem]

Hmm... so what do you think a truck of good topsoil would go for up there?  You can get land in west alabama for next to nothing (less than 1000 an acre).

We buy a lot of bagged soil.  Typically the "in ground" miracle grow that you mix with native.  

Oh, the top soil is "screened" and from a local guy, the sand is from a concrete company, the same one that sells me gravel and crusher run.

You're not thinking of hauling topsoil for the north MS market?  Bring a crowbar to get their wallets open.

BTW, when building new beds, landscape paper is your friend.

Sounds like your local soil is better than anything here, if it's screened.  Problem with answering your basic question is I'm having to guess about your soil quality for plants.  You know the geology of it, and know better than me about drainage of it, but knowing the mineral size doesn't tell me the chemistry (i.e., whether it will grow plants).  Like I said, that crappy-looking B'ham soil, even the stuff full of rocks atop the mountains, grows anything and well.

[Chechem]

If we put an outboard motor on her shoe box, we could ALL go fishing.

I knew you'd show up.  Morning to you and 2 both.

[ssmith general]

Hmm... so what do you think a truck of good topsoil would go for up there?  You can get land in west alabama for next to nothing (less than 1000 an acre).

We buy a lot of bagged soil.  Typically the "in ground" miracle grow that you mix with native.  

Oh, the top soil is "screened" and from a local guy, the sand is from a concrete company, the same one that sells me gravel and crusher run.

You're not thinking of hauling topsoil for the north MS market?  Bring a crowbar to get their wallets open.

BTW, when building new beds, landscape paper is your friend.

Sounds like your local soil is better than anything here, if it's screened.  Problem with answering your basic question is I'm having to guess about your soil quality for plants.  You know the geology of it, and know better than me about drainage of it, but knowing the mineral size doesn't tell me the chemistry (i.e., whether it will grow plants).  Like I said, that crappy-looking B'ham soil, even the stuff full of rocks atop the mountains, grows anything and well.

I can tell you the depositional environment, it's transgressive-regressive, meaning it was a shallow sea that went in and out with sea level.  The laminated layers are partially cemented clays and silts that were in the process of being compacted to shale, but are not there yet, there is a layer of red 'sandstone' also with a lot of fossils.  It's very young, maybe even quaternary, difficult to say since it has some uplift under it.  But the poor condition of the rock is cementation and burial, NOT erosion.

Maybe we could gov subsidies to haul the soil up there.

[2Stater]

If we put an outboard motor on her shoe box, we could ALL go fishing.

Excellent. 

[2Stater]

Gotta run. I have to go to Wal-Marks and pick the little woman something up for Easter, then, I'm going to Scenic Hills to see if I have another 76 in my golf bag. Have a great day.

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