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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Chilli Man
  • Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 07:51:37 -0400

Hey Marc,

You'll enjoy hearing from another Chile Man on this list, Robert Farr.
Here's the link to his website:

http://www.chileman.com

He grows several million peppers a year!! I'm sure he'll pop up soon!

There can only ever be ONE chileman! That's for sure! -Allan ;-)
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From: "Mike Bosko" <mjbosko AT jmtsystems.com>
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Subject: [Market-farming] New guy Introduction (+ weed question)
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Hello, I thought I'd drop a line to introduce myself. You could consider
me a farmer in a geeks body - I'm a software developer by day, and
oftentimes by night, but a part-time farmer of timothy hay, garlic and other
veggies (small scale) in the "spare time". I'm trying different things to
migrate this place to organics (non-certified as of yet). With the garlic
and veggies, its been going pretty well, but for the hay - I'm finding
organics difficult. I've weaned the fields off of all chemicals since we
bought the place 4 years ago and started using, what was sold as earth
friendly fertilizers ... I now am having my doubts..

I have a 1-acre plot that I use as my test area - for integration of cover
crops, compost teas, crop rotations and trying some no till corn this year.
This fall, I'll be trying no-till garlic into oats. Its fun, but
challenging with the limited, and dated equipment that we have.

But anyway, just wanted to send a hello and an introduction to the group so
you can be prepared for some, at times, crazy questions and ideas that I
have while playing with my test plot area.

On to my weed question... I'm noticing this year, each year actually, that
we have a totally new crop of weeds showing. I'm assuming that its due to
the changes I'm making in migrating the place from Chem to Organics. The
soils are changing ( to the good I hope ) and new plants (weeds) are showing
up that display those changes.

Okay, again, to my question.... Knowing that the weeds that grow in a given
area help explain imbalances in soil, does anyone know of a good source (web
site would be ideal) that talks about what weeds grow in what conditions?
Having descriptions of the plants and even better, pictures would be
awesome. I've searched many times over and haven't found such a site. I've
seen noxious weed sites for my State, but all they do is tell what the
plants are, and how to eradicate them. I want to know what soil conditions
they thrive in, so I can make appropriate changes. And yes, I still need to
get soil samples sent in for testing - but it would be nice to be able to
get an idea from the plants that grow.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

Mike

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