RE: Great gardening info from everyone....

**"Honigman, Adam" A*@Bowne.com**

Deborah,

I know that you've soil tested the super alkaline land that your're
interested in placing raised beds on to grow. The massive composting project
that you're about to start to help reclaim this property will astonish  all
of us as the 7th wonder of the world
, I'm sure. ;=) 

In all seriousness, bless your energy! The master gardeners on this list
will undoubtedly share their recipes with you. Here are some sites that may
amuse... 

All joking aside: Here's an interesting piece from the Chinese People's
Daily about agriculture on alkaline land. Evidentally there is a  "Dongying
Alkaline-Tolerant Botanical Garden" in Dongying, a city in Shandong Province
at the mouth of the Yellow River. How accurate this report is is, anyone's
guess ( I guess those pictures of a swimming Mao that were circulated a few
weeks before his death still have me a little skeptical.) 

http://www.peopledaily.ac.cn/english/200001/08/eng20000108T102.html

Here's a piece on World Bank reclaimation of high PH land in Uttar Pradesh.
I know this is "better living through chemistry" but I just throwing this
into the mix, anyway:

http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/extme/2042.htm

More from India:
http://www.niamonline.com/greening.htm

Great luck with your project!

Adam Honigman

-----Original Message-----
From: Deborah Mills [d*@greencure.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:32 PM
To: community_garden@mallorn. com
Subject: [cg] Great gardening info from everyone....

I want to let everyone know that with all of the recent Q & A about
gardening has been wonderful. This server is always great but I guess the
scientist in me enjoys all this talk about dirt.  Very useful information.
Hats off to everyone!

I do have a question. I am looking at a piece of land that is very, very,
very, high in akaline. My thoughts are that we could utilize this property
by gardening in raised beds that would be deep enough to acommendate root
growth where we would have to bring soil into the project. This soil is so
akaline that approximately twice a year a local farmer gives it the once
over to knock down the few weeds that seem to pop up. After he does this,
with-in a month or two, you can begin to see the salts accumulate on the
surface and it becomes crusted over.

Any thoughts or comments on the idea of using this land would be greatly
appreciated.

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