Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>]

I found the following:

 

That grass will push its way through heavy mulch fabric, grew up through 3 ft. of dense sawdust, can live through entire rainless California Central Valley summers, and each tiny rhizome fragment can make an entire 7ft tall plant by mid summer. Gary Matson (matson@snowcrest.net)

 

Johnson Grass - Low organic matter, low calcium and overworked soils.  I assume that if you increase the organic matter [a must] and go no-till, it might die out.  I read that when farmers go no-till by the end of the 3rd or 4th year, weed population is down 90%.  My experience is that it is faster than that.  I know that using 20% vingar kills weeds.  Use on a hot day. Johnson grass?  The one below says to keep it grazed  short will kill it.

 

http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/johnson.pdf

 

May my first suggestion, move, is still correct!!!

 

Here is an excellant IPM info.  Organic IPM field guide /English & Spanish [SP257] attra.ncat.org/español/manejo.html  Download it or order it free on CD. Photos of bugs, etc.

 

Ken Hargesheimer

 

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