Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Now that's smart. That rule of thumb is what the writers now call resilience, or I'd call redundancy. Something that's still a challenge for us here with our limitations.

Speaking of climate, it's crazy. We had a new years day deep freeze 1st week of Dec, then 6 weeks of spring without any precip. Northern NM US at 6200 elev.

On 1/27/2014 1:09 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

I agree and that is why I said at least. Also climate change that already can be felt enormously here is not helping. In fact we don't seem to have a climate any more but just weather and with plenty of extremes too. You can just any longer count on crops that have been a staple for 20 years.

However, there are still rules of thumb that do work such as having a huge variety in the ground when at all possible. Up to now there has always been something that survived the worst of conditions. We are still eating our own fresh vegetables every day even if about half of our winter standby vegetables failed miserably. After 27 years of trial and error we even have an idea of why this happened. We planted too late because previous years summer crops were very late. And then of course the weather was atrocious in at least the last three months.

Anyway, even a thousand packets of seed are not going to save you if you have never experienced what can happen in reality and only start after the shops run dry.

John

On 1/25/2014 4:58 PM, John D'hondt wrote:

If you have no experience I am afraid you need at least a year run in time.

John

Boy, that's an understatement.  I can't think of any other subject that never rises above trial and error.  I've been trying for ten years+ and I still feel like I have no experience.

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