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Re:Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017) by alex_duf on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @05:34AM (#41634772)
I understand it more as "it turns out composting tons of organic material makes the soil more fertile"

Which is far from a breaking news. I'm just curious about how composting this much agrumes didn't unbalance the soil's pH, but that they don't mention it at all in the article.

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Re:Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017) by bryanlarsen on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @07:33AM (#41635407)
It sounds like upsetting the ph balance was a key reason it worked so well. The article mentioned that displacing the invasive grass was part of the reason it worked so well.
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Re:Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017) by alex_duf on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @04:28AM (#41645110)
in fairness dumping tons of anything should disrupt the grass.
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