Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John Smith" <mikakigr@gmail.com>]

Dear Ken,

 

I'm familiar with Ruth Stout's method of mulching and had heard of her potato method. You refer to a video without naming it and also two books and rather mysteriously refer to something in this video. Please bear in mind that this group/list is an international one and that it might be difficult for some to source these items, particularly since you do not give any useful titles.

 

John Smith

 

On 6/24/06, Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear all,

 

Since this issue 6 had a lot on potatoes, you might be interested in Ruth Stout's way.  Read her two little books.  She lifts the thick mulch and drops the potatoe on the ground and lets the mulch fall back over it.  Than she says, "I will come back in the fall and harvest my potatoes",  This is in the video. Reading her books was my introduction to no-till gardening. 7,000 people visited her garden the 25 years she had it until her death in 1990. She does one thing in the garden I would never recommend but you will have to watch the video to learn what it is.  To be honest, I would like to do it.

 

There is a simple, low tech solution to the water problem.  I can see in the future that many cities will not allow gardening because the water they use.  Even city should use biological water treatment which is inexpensive to build and operate.  The sewage goes through three ponds and when it leaves the third pond it is perfectly safe to drink.  That turns a lot of people off but hear this. Ft Worth takes water from the Trinity river and flushes it down the toilet, treats it and dumps it back into the river. Arlington then takes it and flushes it down the toilet, treats it and dumps in back into the river.  Then Dallas and on and on.

 

Ken Hargesheimer

 

 

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