Hello everyone. Welcome back to the podcast. Today I have some feedback from a reader, David, and also a question from that same reader. So he said, on your recent show about soil aeration, you mentioned that soil of a uniform texture will

have poor drainage and aeration, and you encouraged incorporation of organic matter and particles

of different sizes and shapes, while a clay soil with uniform texture will have

poor drainage and adding organic matter will help, a sandy soil also has very uniform texture

but has great drainage generation. So the

uniformity is neutral depending on particle size. You might want to point

that out to listeners as others may have been confused. That is a wonderful

piece of feedback and 100% true.

So in my episode on soil aeration,

what I was getting at is that one factor

in the aeration of soil can be the uniformity of the particles in that soil.

However, it is not the only factor, as David mentioned if you are growing in, let's say,

100% sand, while the particles of sand are all very similar

in shape, however, again, like he said, excellent drainage and pretty good aeration as well.

And so that is not the only factor that determines how well draining or well aerated your

soil might be.

And so now let's get to David's question.

He says, I run a micro farm in Northern California.

What suggestions do you have for Oxalice Control?

My farm is CCOF certified, so O. F. certified, so O M. R. I. I. Approved suggestions are appreciated.

Well, I'll see what I can do, although I am not an organic certified grower or farmer, I'll see what I can do to give you some suggestions.

And again, I have yet to run a micro farm.

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