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  • From: Alex McGregor <waldenfarm AT sprintmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Biointensive by Steve Rioch
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:55:58 -0400


Oops! I left some words out of a paragraph. Here's how it should read:

Back to hot compost- The finished product is relatively low in N, since N is
reduced
to volatiles and solubles during composting. Both hot and cold have low N
levels,
so
why do plants grown in soil where only compost is added not have an N
deficiency?
Because a soil ecosystem includes life forms that convert N in the soil air
to plant
available N (nitrates in bacterially dominated soils and ammonium in fungally
dominated). So, we're feeding the soil life and introducing more types of
life,
which then start and continue the N cycles in the soil, resulting in N
absorption by
plants.





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