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- From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
- To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions
- Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:49:29 -0700
Yeah, Ed, this was another thread where I learned much more than I was able
to contribute on the subject. And I have to change some old ideas. But that's
what I set up this list for. Thanks all.
paul tradingpost@lobo.net
"Down one road lies disaster, down the other utter catastrophe.
Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose wisely ...."
- Woody Allen
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On 11/23/2009 at 11:31 PM henry walden wrote:
>Once again thank you all for a tremendously interesting thread. I move to
>this issue more intuitively than scientifically, sort of over the thumb:
>once a year about 2 inches of old horse manure turned in and every second
>or third year about the same of composted wood chips. Basically I feel
>that the first year the chips go in they are just lightening and aerating
>the soil, the second year they are more or less weakened and working, and
>by the third year they're pretty much gone. I also feel that this approach
>requires as diverse of a compost amendment as can be obtained, this will
>invariably lead to better production; however, I do not wish to alter the
>original composition too rapidly or dramatically by what might be
>considered a more adaquate fertilization. Life has time.
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>Ed aka henrywalden
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Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions
, (continued)
- Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions, Tradingpost, 11/10/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions, mdnagel, 11/11/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions, Amrita Chaudhury, 11/11/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions, Pego Rice, 11/12/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions, mdnagel, 11/12/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions, Harvey Ussery, 11/13/2009
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Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions,
henry walden, 11/23/2009
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Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions,
Tommy Tolson, 11/24/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] tilling?, Ken Hargesheimer, 11/24/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] soil fertility, Ken Hargesheimer, 11/24/2009
- Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions, Tradingpost, 11/26/2009
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Re: [Livingontheland] Biochar questions,
Tommy Tolson, 11/24/2009
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