To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: Re: [SANET-MG] Question for Elaine: Fwd:Re: Fwd: Re: [SANET-MG] Soil minerals and nutrition
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 14:17:36 -0800
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. .