Re: Re: What will one acre grow??

In a message dated 8/11/2007 8:06:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
irisgrower@cableone.net writes:

<<i believe Schreiners and Cooleys use  onions.>>
Now THAT does surprise me since onions have similar requirements.   What does 
the onion take from the soil?  Anyone know off  hand? Usually the idea behind 
rotation is to give back nutrients that have  been depleted from the soil.  
(also to break the life cycle of pathogens) 
 
Plant something that sends roots down into the subsoil to pull nutrients  
back to the surface.  I've always heard that the tomato plant puts down  deep 
roots that bring up nutrients from the subsoil.  Some weeds do  also.  If my 
memory is still good at all, buckwheat is highly recommended  for building soils.  
Other grains work to varying degrees. 
 
Beans, rice and wheat are rotated in AR.  While the farmers here put  tobacco 
and corn into the rotations.  In these cases a cash crop is needed  each 
year.  Some crops are not as profitable as others.  
 
 


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