Re: Re: What will one acre grow??

Its not what the Iris take from the soil but what goes
into it. You get a build up of microorganisms that are
geared to eating Iris. Onions surprised me to. Iwould
have though a dicot would have worked better like
soybeans and a legume also traps nitrogen fro the next
crop.

--- Autmirislvr@aol.com wrote:

> 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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