permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>]

On 12/28/2010 5:17 PM, sals3 wrote:
> I would like to add my 2 cents the soil you test now is not the soil you
> will have real soon if you r making your own soil using permaculture. .
> you may not get the same readings after a rain or on a hot day or over
> here or over there . I would think and after years there should be more
> fungus more forest etc do you think the test would be the same minerals
> . . IMHO
> do you think the soil test under a banana "a grass "would give the same
> readings as under a 100 year tree even though they are only feet apart ?
> I don't know. I think a good soil test the best I have seen was go under
> a healthy tree and pull back the mulch and see if your making soil and
> how good it looks. of course it looks better after a rain and different
> in hot weather. guess you have to look at the tree itself and every
> thing around it . are they happy or stressed. .

Great observation, Sal. It was those kind f thoughts that made me think 
that looking at soil test results in the context of conditions at the 
time the sample was taken and also in the context of results of a total 
soil microbiology assay, soil organic matter and variations according to 
depth and more. This is very interesting stuff. We should see what more 
we can come up with.