permaculture

[Claude Genest <genest@together.net>]

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.
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> permaculture mailing list
> permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture