Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>]

Count yourself fortunate if you can grow a "lush weed patch".   I have patches of "soil" that have refused to grow anything for over 30 years.  As far as I know, nobody has lived on, farmed, or ranched (to any significant extent) the land since the Indians roamed.

 

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----

From: Unca Ray

To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing

Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 3:40 PM

Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Weeds as Indicators Of Soil Conditions

The fact of the matter is that bed of weeds would
ultimately turn your beds into fertile soil. Round
here (the mountains of Eastern Tennessee.) It is
well known that any lush weed patch that has grown
undisturbed for a few years can be burned off and
two or three good crops taken from it before it
returns to the deadness of the surrounding fields.

UncaRay

TradingPostPaul wrote:
>
> I'll look into that. I don't even have anything handy on our own area, high
> desert NM. Barb is the "don't you dare pull that weed" voice around here
> and an accomplished researcher ;-) -- so I'm studying up on methods of
> discouraging weeds in intensive no-till plantings. With rich soil and drip
> I better do more than mulch ... In May I made up a deep, curving rose bed
> from the dirt road embankment. Never got roses put in but with monsoon got
> the biggest crop of weeds around, absolutely huge.
>
> paul, tradingpost@lobo.net
>
> The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all
> our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to
> foster its renewal is our only hope.
>    - Wendell Berry
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
>
> On 12/4/2006 at 6:15 AM Unca Ray wrote:
>
> >Paul;
> >
> >Do you have any leads to weed indication charts
> >for anything beyond the "Weeds Of Quebec"? I'd be
> >particularly interested in something for the
> >Appalachians or Eastern Tennessee.
> >
> >UncaRay
> >
> >
>
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