Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com>]

I understand you analogy but I'm thinking that what we are looking at is outside the discipline.  My Dr, when we 1st met, sometimes tried to write scripts for me that were clearly the idiot solution.  Drugs popular, right now, for Asthma often have severe side-effects and the "Mild" side-effects like dental destruction, have long term affect on health that take (surprise) even more interventions to deal with over the course of years.  I bluntly told her at the time that advice to quit the job would be saner than this common prescription.  Jobs of my sort were replaceable, my long-term health was not.  She, like every other doctor trained today, was taught to chase symptoms around with drugs.  So, I do go to my doctor for diagnostic testing and information but I know there's a limit to what she can see.

 

I don't know of any way for evaluating a veg patch for heavy metals outside a test.  Lake of iron, yes, lack of potassium, certainly but not these other things and, honestly, It takes a season to see that I've got a number of deficiencies that these soil test will show quickly, tho, like you I know that it may not be accurate.  The surface may lack what the subsurface has in abundance.  Still, it tells me something that a test shows a substance's presence, while the growth fails.  Then it is not the absence of the substance, but of the suite of bacteria/mycelium that facilitate the transfer of nutrients into our plants.

 

Yours, Pego

<<I understand what you're saying, but the same goes for doctors you see more than one, in most cases they will draw different conclusions for the same set of symptoms, even if its the same doctor on different days. Unfortunately I'm absolutely serious about this. If they have different specialties or are a gp vs a specialist they will almost always draw the conclusion that fits their profession/most recent marketing material/most recent patient/ or journal article. Very few can diagnose even simple infections even given a lab test.>>