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Re: Zones

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Kevin-  I read your post on planting asparagus with great interest. I hope
to dig a big hole later this season and begin the process of readying a spot
for asparagus for next year. I too am concerned about weeds and would prefer
not to create more maintenance than necessary. Would you care to further
explain "solar sterilize" means to you as I have never heard of it before.
Thanks and have a great day,
bill missen.


----- Original Message -----
From: "the fluffy bunny" <kevin.mathews@juno.com>
To: <sqft@listbot.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: Zones


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| Debbie wrote:
|
| Someone mentioned asparagus, and I do want an asparagus patch that I
| would like to start immediately since it takes a few years.
|
| My reply:
|
| My unsolicited advice on this topic would be to control the natural
| impulse to get the asparagus in next spring.   My suggestion is to get
| any sod or weeds out now, amend the soil, soil sterilize the trench, and
| spread the soil that will fill the trench(about 2/12 times the volumes of
| what you think it should take, it packs down as you slowly fill the
| trench in)out and solar sterilize it too.  Then replace 1/2 the soil into
| the trench and mound the rest up.   Let it sit for a year and sterilize
| the trench again, and plant the asparagus out the second spring.
|
| In the past I have used this method to great success.      Asparagus
| growers are always fighting grass, latent slugs,bugs and other creepy
| things.  This gives you a chance to do it right.  Solar soil
| sterilization is a wonderful thing, but it really does nasty thing to the
| beneficial microbes in the soil.  That  is why the delay, as you really
| want to sterilize the soil twice.
|
| It sounds like a lot of work, but over the long haul I feel it is worth
| it.     Yields are high, pests are slight and weeding is a relatively
| minor task.
|
| Very truly yours, in growing delicious things, the fluffy bunny
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