Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

I think that's a terrific idea - "part of sustainability to my way of 
thinking is to find what crops grow and flourish in the "new" higher temps". 
As for grasshoppers the only thing I can do is keep down tall weeds nearby - 
that seems to cut down the damage. I grew up in NE TX so I can sympathize. 
Dallas has had an all time record stretch of 100+ days. We almost settled in 
the Hill Country around Luckenbach ten years ago.

Check out http://www.nativeseeds.org/
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Paul_Nabhan

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 8/14/2010 at 10:31 PM bob@4agoodauction.com wrote:

>I am in Texas and the grasshoppers have eaten everything in the garden
>except okra and Cucuzza. The cucuzza is thriving without added moisture and
>producing a huge quantity of squash. All the bean crops are gone. I am
>thinking about how to make a giant vacuum cleaner running off the PTO of
>the
>tractor so I could use the grasshoppers for chicken feed, fish feed and
>garden ammonia. I am rambling but part of sustainability to my way of
>thinking is to find what crops grow and flourish in the "new" higher temps.
>I am looking for seeds from the arid areas of the world to try as I do not
>believe anything will get better in my life time. I don't believe it will
>be
>worth the effort to salvage the past patterns of farming or life. Better to
>find what will work in the new reality.
>Bob C
>
>
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