Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

On 12/05/2010 01:47 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> I followed Steve Solomon's list for a few years and eventually had to 
> give. . .
> - he is dead against building up a soil with compost or organic matter 
> because he is convinced this breeds gazillions of crop eating pests 
> apart from bringing even more unwanted potassium in. ~John

I found some things in his Hard Times book that were bizarre as well.

I just started reading Sir Albert Howard's AN AGRICULTURAL TESTAMENT 
yesterday. One point he made strongly was that soils with a lot of 
organic matter produce crops that resist disease--and conversely, 
disease was on the increase where OM was going down with greater 
reliance on chemical fert's.

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Va
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