This is the answer. Forget the rusty nails.
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i asked my father when i was young, while working in the garden with him, why weeds always came back no matter how many you pulled. he said mother nature didnt like to be naked. if you didnt plant something, mother nature would. i only truly understood that many years later.
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Nobody talks about this… but a very old timer told my dad to not worry about rocks in the garden. He said they are what gives the garden minerals.
I think Everett’s heirloom blackberries grow in pure rocks… most everything in nature seems to love them…
I probably have hauled 10000 buckets of rocks from our gardens and when we grew cash crops growing up.
There are stone walls up on my hill where the big pastures are… the old timers obviously did it too.
Theres something wired into being a human that grows things that thinks that soil should be brown, no rocks… and nothing at all growing on it for it to be ‘good dirt’.
I am a lil obsessed with crab grass… i cant help but pluck them… good exercise anyways…bending and moving. Plenty of exercise for me for a long time i think.
Sand is ground up rocks… people like ‘sandy loam’ but people hate rocks.
I admit when i till my corn rows i still remove rocks… i need to stop I think.
Im letting the weeds go in my corn this year… i did last year and had great corn.
I let the weeds take over my garlic beds and i had a great harvest. Every thing written says that is a big no no.
Weeds, Rocks… metal shavings… im not doubting anything the old timers used to do… They grew more things and canned and stored more things than i ever will. And that was before the internet and Amazon.
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