For the past two years, I grew sweet corn in this area. The year before, it was potatoes, and squash the year before that. Last winter, I buried a dead chicken who was viciously murdered by some sort of chicken-obsessed predator. Then I planted nematocidal mustard in the bed for green manure and to kill of any nematodes.
The lush thick leaves are the mustard on the chicken grave. The test is the mustard where there are no buried chicken victims.
It's the same seeds, but obviously the area over the chicken is much more fertile than the rest. Those leaves are green and lush, and the plants are very vigorous. The other mustard plants are puny and unhealthy looking.
That proves that the soil there is now depleted and needs fertilizer (preferably organic) or nothing will grow well there.
It also proves that chicken corpses make a good fertilizer, at least for mustards.
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