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Awesome. I applied compost my first and maybe second year, since then its been mulch and chickens rotating victory garden style.

Last year I seeded with daikon and let it rot.

Still no roots like that yet though.
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Jim 2y ago

Penetrometer? I dont even know what that is!

You doin' dat science!

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John Dee 2y ago

Haha yeah. Fancy name for a spike with a pressure gauge on top. You can do the same test with a piece of rebar sharpened on one end. When it gets hard to push into the soil that's about 150 psi, the limit of what plant roots can push through.

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Jim 2y ago

I did not know that. Very cool trick.