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  • From: Claude Genest <genest@together.net>
  • To: <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Imitating fire
  • Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 17:21:51 -0400

No, I'm not sure...thanks for checking :-)

> From: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
> Reply-To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 20:40:31 -0600
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Imitating fire
>
> At 07:13 PM 4/22/02 -0400, you wrote:
>
>
>> That does sound neat Toby, but I gotta tell you, I'm on the volunteer fire
>> dept. here and this is our busiest time of year.... around here, people
>> are in the habit of burning their lawns - - - I Sh*t you not....Kind of a
>> holdover from the old farming days when burning the stubble was used to
>> release a quick shot of phosphorous.....Why people think lawn needs added
>> phosphorous for lawns I've no idea, as I try and tell them : Just try and
>> get the grass to NOT grow around here !
> Are you sure it's phosphorous? I have always heard it was potassium that
> you got from wood ash. Just checkin'
>
> Scott P.
>
>
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