permaculture

[georg parlow <g.parlow@gmx.at>]

Thank you folks, for the numerous responses. I learned a dramatic  
amount in this discussion. To sum up my personal learning highlights:
*) AP is an ecosystem of it's own right, with even bigger numbers of  
invisible life forms than soilbased ag;
*) The high oxigenation is a major key to the high plant growth in APs;
*) The permaculture-ness of AP is not in the method, but how I  
integrate it with the rest of my system, e. g. production of fish-food  
[plant waste, red wrigglers, mealworms, maggots], the needed energy,  
how I insulate [dug-in, lean-on or free-standing greenhouse], how I  
market, what other uses I find for my greenhouse, etc.

Thank you all who contributed.

Questions I do have now are:
*) What about foliar feeding the nutrients that might be short in  
supply in the water? Some of this was covered in the excellent  
compilation about comost teas, etc. - Thx, Lawrence! - but I am  
lacking the information how to choose my EM or tea ingredients in  
order to target specific lacks. Any information on that available?
*) I do not grok the seawater growing thing. a) I believed that most  
plants are not salt tolerant. Yet I read that they lushly thrived on  
seawater. Is either advocate lying or is there a synthesis to this  
that I do not grasp? b) If salt is good for plant health (and I also  
know that some salt is good for fish health, for they tolerate more  
salt than some of their parasites) - why not simply dump seasalt into  
the AP?


Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Georg Parlow
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