Hi Big Boy,

I have been thinking about this!!
If the rocks aren't that big,
I would think they would be fine???

When a growing medium has only one kind of
ingredient or consistancy, that is where you run into problems.
ie; if the dirt was to be all fine, sifted dirt,
beutiful to look at, and dig in............
but it would just compact down because there wouldn't be different things in the soil to give it "charactor" and allow for water to drain into the soil and oxygen to go into the soil for the roots, all this stuff needs them to be healthy.

IMHO, I believe the soil needs the rocks, some mind you, not a ba~zillion of them...............
to be able to keep all of those air ways and tunnels open and not completely compacted...
Does that make sense or did I confuse it more??

I think that as long as the rototiller doesn't "stop" because of the size of them,
I don't think there should be much problem with them. When planting, and there's some you feel too big, just push to the side.....

Hope this helps???????

Weezie

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Some years ago I moved to a place that had a real nice garden spot; However, the last gardener had used regular gravel in the walkways, I had the same question, but with no one to "refer" to, I removed what I could and tilled her up, I came up with a ratio of about 2 handfulls of gravel per a 5 gal bucket of soil Had a great garden, but the soil was extremely fertile, so who can say....