permaculture

["Alex J. Long" <alexl@paladin2000.com>]

I'm sorry Rick, I like your response, it's just that I couldn't resist the 
imagery of those goosepimpled fools.

At 04:26 PM 24/04/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> Back to an earlier part of this thread; there's nothing that says "if you
> start with mulch you must keep the system in mulch" Ruth Stout said so early
> on- in answer to the poor denuded fools who told her mulch wasn't practical
> because the soil couldn't warm up fast enough, she said "just pull the mulch




> back, it'll be nice DARK soil underneath and it'll warm up quicker! (she
> gardened in near-arctic Conneticut, fcs) I usually use mulch to blitz a lawn
> or cover a gravel parking lot, and by about year three I've a bank of seed
> containing nearly every plant I need, and I mulch here and there and leave
> it off here and there and put compost heaps and towers (planted) here and
> there. And I don't need to plant very much at all, I mainly select which
> plants live and/or get eaten and/or mulched and/or trimmed.
> The process goes "sloth leads to learning leads to chaos"
> -Rick