Dry soil. If you're living here in the West Coast, I think you have been a little

sick of the level of dryness that we've been dealing with with all these fires that

are going on right now but no matter what

I guarantee some of you out there have dry dead soil that you really want to bring back to life and

this is certainly the case for me in my backyard at the new homestead

it's just a total mess of weeds and the only thing that can really grow in that soil are these

weeds I have some foxtail barley and some other

things like that because the soil is dry, compacted in clay. So it's a bit of a

triple threat of death so to speak where you, my carrots aren't going to do so well

in that soil are they?

So how do we fix this?

Well, there's so many different methods to do this and everyone has their own sort of

personal philosophy.

For example, someone who's into the Back to Eden style method would say, don't do anything except

for add six to eight inches of wood chips to the soil and just let time take its toll.

And that can certainly work.

So your decision will shift based on your timeline

and how quickly you want that soil to be good.

Now, no matter what, there's only so fast you can

make Mother Nature do what it does but I would say back to Eden is a multi-year

process whereas there's some other things that you can do in the meantime to improve it

faster if let's say you want an annual vegetable garden or an annual flower

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