permaculture

["L.Santoyo Designs" <santoyo@earthflow.com>]

A,

Wasn't that you, back when, who advocated gopher fur for a fine winter 
mulch...

Peace to you in the Holy Lands,

L

> woo hoo! now we're getting somewhere, what with toby
> dissing mother theresa and kat sleeping with larry, we
> got's all sorts of edge going now. ps scott tried to
> rip me a new one also way back when, when i was
> spinning some zone 6 coyote rap on the ibilio list.
> check the archives. (you might think, as myself and
> others did) that the fumes from his misadjusted
> karkelofen were getting to him.
>
> anyway, i'm going to treat the openpc and ibiblio
> lists as the same one, mas o menos, since there's
> personality issues galore and lot's of the same people
> on both of them right now. no major differences that i
> can tell.
>
> my one important question though, is why not one of
> you on either list has responded to my very reasonable
> request for info/experience on growing in coniferous
> mulch. i've copied it below in case anyone cares to
> actually help grow some food.
>
> remember now, we're alchemists: shit to gold (check
> out the Thich Nat Hanh writings on how the flower and
> the stinky compost "inter-are")
>
> oh yeah, i was just kidding you know, larry just wote
> that kat stayed over his house, i just spun it a bit
> for humor(?) cause i know he's got thick skin. and
> kat's steele. plus the man advocates gopher defense by
> putting their little heads on sticks around the garden
> perimeter, old school-stylie.
>
> here' that coniferous mulch-
> akiva
>
> ---------------
>
> i've harvested a bunch of old mulch from under some
> conifers, maybe some sort of cypress, and pine trees
> in my yard. it was in a shaded north spot, beautifully
> broken down with no visible plants growing in it, so i
> moved it 20 meters or so to blanket some recently
> sculpted clay-soil terraces. i've transplanted into it
> large leafy green veggie plants (kale, collards, etc),
> and seeded various grains from seed, egyptian (very
> large)
> lentils, and plan on seeding other stuff too. so far,
> everything seems happy.
>
> is there anything i should know about what will or
> won't continue to be happy and produce well in this
> type of soil? is it likely acidic, and good for
> strawberries? any other planting recommendations?
>
> thanks for any feedback-
> akiva
> jerusalem
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
> http://mail.yahoo.com
> _______________________________________________
> permaculture mailing list
> permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture


--
Larry Santoyo, Director
EarthFlow Design Works
805.459.0452
http://www.earthflow.com/consulting.html