Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Robert Monie <bobm20001@yahoo.com>]

I've heard stories of Chinese villages surviving on Nappa Cabbages that were especially winter hardy (in fact almost the only plant that grew that season.)

 

Bob Monie

TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net> wrote:

> You know snow is an insulator, hmm? I'm surprised about cabbage though,
> what variety was that? Don't some handle cold better than others? Speaking
> of walking onions, we checked back at our old place and found most of them
> were rotting at the roots from getting waterlogged in summer monsoon. It
> was a heavily manured sunken bed - know not to do that here ... 
>
> I read somewhere that in WW II the retreating Russian army survived the
> winter by digging up rutabagas in peoples' gardens when the Germans were
> doing the scorched earth thing on their march to Stalingrad.
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> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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> On 12/4/2006 at 7:12 AM Laurie Ann Powell wrote:
>
> >Just wanted to share that yesterday I went out and dug through 6 inches
> >of snow and a sheet of ice, pulled back some polypropylene sheeting and
> >got a wonderful cabbage for our dinner!
> >
> >I'd gotten so accustomed to ignoring threats of precipitation for
> >Oklahoma, that I did no preparation for the mini-blizzard we ended up
> >having. However, the bit of protection I had done against the cold
> >seems to have saved the cabbage, at least. I haven't checked on my
> >walking onions, but I imagine they will be fine in their bed of straw,
> >as well.
> >
> >Laurie Ann
> >
> >
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