permaculture

["Jerome Osentowski" <jerome@crmpi.org>]

Rick, In replaceing glyposphates, we use two layer of clear plastic to 
solarize the quackgrass, which will come back through sheetmulch.  We leave
it on for a month, and have had good results.  I have wiped out much of the
quackgrass here and have only a few reserves ,that I manage as fodder for my
rabbits. It is 18% protien, and the only green in good supply at this time.
It also has many medicinal properties, helps with the prostate.  So don't
nuke all those weeds.  jerome
--
Jerome Osentowski, Director
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
PO Box 631
Basalt, CO 81621   U.S.A.

Tel/fax (970) 927-4158    E mail: jerome@crmpi.org

For more information, please visit our web site at <<www.crmpi.org>>


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>From: Rick Valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>
>To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [permaculture] Broadminded thinking?
>Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2002, 9:51 AM
>

>
>
>> From: UrthMomma@aol.com
>> Reply-To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 17:30:13 EST
>> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Broadminded thinking?
>>
>> Currently, it seems to take less human hours to turn turf into garden space
>> using glyphosphates, but also consider the sheet composting/mulching 
>> method,
>> which requires forethought at the end of the prior growing season and adds 
>> to
>>
>> humus and soil building.
>
> Why "forethought at the end of the prior growing season"? I get the best
> results sheet mulching in mid to late spring, and planting immediately.
> Forethought in gathering all the materials and having large seed and small
> transplants ready, but it's much more effective than a fall-laid sheet
> compost.
> -Rick
>
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