Market Farming

["Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>]

Joan,
It sounds like you have a good plan developed.  One more thing you may want
to consider is applying your rock powders like soft or black rock phosphate
and/or greensand over top of one layer of compost when you apply it to your
beds and lightly incorporating it into the soil.  This way nutrients from
the organic amendments would be available come the next growing season.

Peg Cook
Cook's Consulting
Lowville, NY.

pegcook AT northnet.org
www.cooksagconsulting.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joan Vibert" <joan AT windwalker-farm.com>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 11:23 AM
Subject: [market-farming] Re: manure


> Peg - I'm assuming that the manure will be delivered in much smaller
amounts
> - more like 2 to 4 tons at a time.  I was going to have him dump each load
> separately so I can take the load and begin mixing it in with our old hay
> that didn't get out of the pasture last summer.  We'll rent a bobcat for
> scooping the manure onto a real pile.
>
> I'm just tired of never being able to make enough compost.  I need organic
> matter in my main field and would love to be able to have enough compost
to
> literally spread it on some beds instead of merely putting it "in the
hole"
> at transplant time.  So if I wanted enough compost for about 1/2 acre of
> beds (or more) I figure I could use somewhere between 6 and 10 tons using
> the figures in Start With the Soil.
>
> Have just ordered purple vetch for frost seeding on beds I didn't get to
> last fall when it was too dry to do any decent bed prep.  I think this
will
> help for this year.
>
> joan
> windwalker farm
> ottawa, kansas
>
>
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