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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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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.

in fairness dumping tons of anything should disrupt the grass.

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