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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Borrowed cows and on-the spot composting... ()Turning Sand Into Paradise()
  • Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 15:08:24 -0700

In addition to what Kevin suggested, what about sowing various nutritious
herb, weed and vegetable seeds into the particlly finished sheet compost.
This will send more enriched manure/compost tea into the soil while providing
host
plants for many of the beneficial fungi; also plant nitrogen fixing perennial
cover crops and woody perennials.
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Fertile Secret
How Did Ancient Amazonians Turn Sand Into Rich Soil? Garbage
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DyeHard/dyehard.html

Turning Sand Into Paradise
"But what is even more startling is the fact that somehow those early
settlers had managed to enrich the
soil with nutrients that persisted even to this day, turning what some have
called a wet desert into a
garden paradise. How they did it, and why the soil remained fertile for
centuries despite the punishing
heat and torrential rains that normally wash nutrients away, has stumped
modern scientists.

They did something that nobody has been able to do since, and if experts can
figure out exactly how they did it,
vast regions of the planet that are not now suitable for agriculture might
spring to life.

Like so many archeological discoveries, parts of this story have been known
for years. The rich pockets of soil,
known as terra preta do Indio (Indian dark earth) have been used by local
farmers for many years because they can
grow crops with virtually no fertilizer. And the fact that the hillsides were
littered with ancient pottery shards
was documented more than a century ago."

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L.F.London
lfl@intrex.net
http://market-farming.com
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