“Blend peat moss with native soil and pine bark after amending with sulfur to buffer the soil environment.”

“Add elemental sulfur in powder or pellet form to amend the soil; it will work better than not doing anything.”

“Just for logistics it's better to wait till the soil is a little bit drier it's easier to access easier to soil sample it's going to be less sticky”

“The other thing we encourage is to put a layer of mulch to try to hold that moisture in as well. ... The coarser, the better.”

“We were using new techniques to grow microbes from soil that had never been grown before. And no one had ever explored them in the lab.”