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edge that whatever I planted had at least a 50-50 chance of surviving. There was the next problem to deal with: the soil at my house is lousy. It’s heavy clay and rocky, at the same time. Now how do you deal with that? , Conventional wisdom says that the thing to do is to amend one’s soil by working in organic material like manure to make it better. But my soil is so thin in some places that I feel like I’m putting my rototiller’s life on the line when I start trying to chew into that soil. Last year I found a remedy.

Instead of digging down, I

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