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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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Re: Biointensive by Steve Rioch,
David Inglis, 06/04/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Biointensive by Steve Rioch, Jeffery Blake, 06/04/2001
- Re: Biointensive by Steve Rioch, Alex McGregor, 06/12/2001
- Re: Biointensive by Steve Rioch, Alex McGregor, 06/12/2001
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