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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] hard science behind no-till
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:47:39 -0600


Ever notice how often someone's grandmother pops up in these discussions?
Must be a good reason.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 7/17/2007 at 2:07 PM Terry Wereb wrote:

>I find the statement about OM content being the single, most important
>thing
>to know about the soil to be the heart of what got me on the right
>path--- many years ago, knowing nothing about fertilizers, i just followed
>my grandmother's lead and turned anything I dug up back into the garden
>plot. I spent all summer burying vegetation in the garden-- and even in
>the winter, if there was a thaw, one could bet i was burying SOMETHING
>vegetative in the garden.
> Now my grandmother did not know about No Till-- but she did dislike the
>'geen revolution' methods. She told me more than once, we needed to help
>Nature, not hurt it. She told me Nature could fix things given time and a
>little help-- I have moved even further along-- like Nature, I really do
>not
>want a monoculture in any bed or field. Currently, i may have to break
soil
>in order to give roots a place to go-- but within 3 years, the patch I am
>gardening in right now will be a soft, rich surface that any seed will be
>glad to set up housekeeping in--And I Doubt that now having an irrigation
>system will be an issue---
>
>Terry W
>Frosted Acres
>







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