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  • From: Steve Diver <steved@ipa.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] A No Till Question for Larger Fields
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:06:50 -0500 (GMT-05:00)

The following two sections come from a workshop
handout I provide to gardeners and farmers in
the four-state region of the Ozark-Prairie ecoregions
of AR, OK, MO, and KS.

"Suppliers of Organic Fertilizers, Rock Minerals,
Composts, and Pelletized Poultry Litter in the
Tri-State Region of the Ozarks (NW-Ark, NE-Okla,
and SW-Missouri)", a ten page resource list with
supplies, recipes, instructions, and resource listings.


Section One:

Three Pillars of Organic Farming Fertility
1. Cover Crops (and Crop Rotations)
2. Compost
3. Rock Minerals (and Rock Dusts), based on a soil test

Supplemental Fertility Practices
4. Bucket Organic Fertilizer Blend
5. Sidedress (with N sources in Blend) or Fertigate
6. Bioaugmentation with Microbe Teas

Supplemental Fertilty Practice to Raise Brix
7. Foliar Fertilization


Section Two:

Cool-Season Winter Legumes
Crimson Clover
Subterranean Clover
Austrian Winter Pea
Vetch

Cool-Season Winter Cereals and Broadleaves
Annual Ryegrass
Winter Rye
Winter Wheat
Rapeseed
Oilseed Radish
Mustard

Warm-Season Summer Legumes and Broadleaves
Buckwheat
Cowpeas, viny type
Soybeans, viny type
Sunn hemp

Warm-Season Summer Grasses and Cereals
Sorghum-Sudan Grass
Japanese Millet
Pearl Millet


That should help get you started with ideas on
a rotation to smother out Johnson grass and build
your soil fertility, organic matter, and biological
activity.

For a basic how-to approach: get some rock
minerals, pelletized poultry litter, and cover crop
seed.

Fyi, for rock minerals focus on limestone, rock
phosphate, and K-mag as necessary, based on a
soil test.

You can produce high biomass yielding and green and
healthy looking cover crops, build soils, and smother
out weeds at the same time.

Steve Diver
Northwest Arkansas



-----Original Message-----
>From: Terry Boyne <tboyne@email.com>
>Sent: Jul 19, 2006 2:32 PM
>To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [Livingontheland] A No Till Question for Larger Fields
>
>
>Thanks to everyone for your suggestions!
>
>I'll give that some thought.
>
>As to what I plan to plant, I'm giving that some thought too as I look at
>the whole picture of trying to put together a self-sustaining operation.
>
>Suggestions are welcome. I'm working with sandy loam river bottom soil that
>has a good bit of limestone agrigate mixed in that's washed down from the
>above hills.
>
>Thanks,
>Terry








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