Here’s another pic I dug up today I remember well. This is what really set the light bulb off to the importance of organic matter in my sandy soil. I had tried to plant a strip of Egyptian wheat around the perimeter of the field to serve as a screen. The seed bed had been well prepared and well fertilized. Despite feeling like I had done everything “the right way”…..my screen was still failing miserably and looked like crap. There was one small area of exception though. It was where an old tree had fallen and left a decomposing stump. That one small area was doing quite well….especially in comparison to everything else…..It was then that I realized the effect that the organic matter was having and that the only way I would ever grow true quality plots would be to have the whole field full of soil organic matter just the same....... So I started building it…….