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  • From: "Michaele Blakely" <mjb AT premier1.net>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Soil Fungi Critical to Organic Success
  • Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 09:50:21 -0700


I am constantly amazed at how often good farmers think that the best thing
in the world for their crops is a clean field. The longer I farm, the less
likely I am to remove anything from my field unless it is a direct
encroachment on what I am to harvest.

Michaele
Growing Things
Carnation Wa
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill Taylor Bussiere" <jdt AT itol.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 8:03 AM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: Soil Fungi Critical to Organic Success


>
> > RE: Soil Fungi Critical to Organic Success
> > also at: www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/may01/fungi0501.htm
>
> > It has long been known that rotating portions of the field or garden
> periodically back into sod replenishes the habitat for beneficial fungi
and
> helps balance soil fertility. Composts made with well decomposed shredded
> bark, leaves or wood chips are very rich in beneficial fungi. Wild plants,
> dandelions especially, provide an important over-wintering habitat for
> dormant fungi, so they can recolonize the new crops the following season.
> Biostrip intercropping and other farmscaping methods can help maintain
> permanent healthy and vigorous mycorrhizae populations. As in ³Field of
> Dreams², Build It and They Will Come.....
>
> Hey! This means that my practice of leaving weeds (wild plants) to
> overwinter in my garden is indeed beneficial!!!!!! (Besides cutting down
on
> erosion!) How about that! Thanks, Steve!
>
> Jill
>
>
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