Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

That is the case under anaerobic conditions Ken. When conditions are anaerobic organic material is converted to highly toxic stuff. Hydrogen sulphite, ammonia and phosphine. A good rule of thumb is to watch out for bad smells.

john

You do not have to "sneak" compost in. It is good for the soil.  I understand never have more than 12% OM in the soil.  I wish I could get that much to test if the statement is true. I understand at that point, the organisms change and are bad. 

Ken H

--- On Sat, 2/19/11, richard green <greenrw71@hotmail.com> wrote:

From: richard green <greenrw71@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] tilling
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Saturday, February 19, 2011, 11:18 AM

I was surprised that my gardening method was so similar to the Cds you sent me Ken. Thank you for sending them.I wasnt keeping as constant nor as deep a mulch as the Lady. So am testing that on one bed, Ive fears of being over run by slugs that linger under the mulch. Ive been gathering the majority of the winter pea vines and putting them in the compost bin. However on the test bed I under sowed the collards with peas cutting the bottoms of the collards as they grew taller. My intentions is to leave all pea vines where they lay the heat should killem off shortly. If not I will cut and leave in place, planting the next crop down thru em, I might sneak a little compost into the planting hole...

Rick

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