Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Grandma was smart ... !

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 4/8/2007 at 1:15 PM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:

>I think that the main point we should remember is that, since we've never
>been in this situation before, NOBODY KNOWS what is going to happen.  The
>models are just that - models - guesses, based on observed science.  In
>one sense the wisest attitude is the same your Grandmother told you - hope
>for the best, but prepare for the worst.
>
>PS - Central Texas just had the coldest Easter on record, about 35 degrees
>last night.  Sleet & snow yesterday!
>
>E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
>www.hillcountrynatives.biz
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: TradingPostPaul 
>  To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org 
>  Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2007 12:42 PM
>  Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] UN, world scientists concensus on global
>warming
>
>
>
>  Good - maybe. They caution us to avoid chalking up local variations to
>  global climate change (i.e., no hurricanes made landfall last year on US
>  east coast). My point was simply that growers of all sorts need to plan
>to
>  cope with more severe or unpredictable weather in the not too distant
>  future, including temperature and precip. 
>
>  Just got over a spell of snow and sleet here in high desert central New
>  Mexico, basically forced us to move our germination flats from the
>seedling
>  greenhouse into an inside storeroom to get 70 degrees. Tomatoes,
peppers,
>  eggplant, melons, squash. Now to keep the cats off those shelves ;-)
>