Re: CULT: Solarization

From: HIPSource@aol.com

In a message dated 1/19/00 10:51:00 PM Eastern Standard Time, gcsnyd@loop.com 
writes:

<<  I was talking about how quickly information passes across the continent
 and around the world>>

This is very true. I do wish some people in other countries would tell us 
more stories, though, Gerry. It has been eons since we heard from a European.
 
 << Me, too! My "soil" is silt and sand and pebbles and cobbles and a few
 boulders. I add a lot of organic stuff (alfalfa forever), and seeing a few 
worms when I play with the conglomerate for replanting lets me kid myself 
that my efforts have not been totally in vain. >>

You sound like you could use some of our fine red Virginia clay, bind up that 
gravel some. I'm using some extra alfalfa this winter myself. I'm 
experimenting with the really bad areas behind my magnolia tree where I can't 
dig or anything because of  the roots. I've layered on some peat moss from a 
bale I found in the alley, lots of willow oak leaves along with the organic 
medium from the pots on the terrace, and a mess of alphabits. I'm thinking 
about getting a nice big bag of dehydrated cow manure to toss around, too, 
and in the spring I'll cover the whole mess with mulch to compost in place. 
Hopefully it will break down and do something for the soil.

<< Worrying about worms could turn me off to solarization, too.>>

Yeah. Dirt without worms is a real sad thing and they are not the only good 
thing living in the soil. I keep thinking I should go get a mess of night 
crawlers at a bait shop and introduce them in to my garden to see if they 
will take, but that seems a pretty desperate measure and if I have a 
different kind of worm here then there might be worm turf wars in the yard 
and that would be too bizarre for words. So I just keep amending what I can 
amend and working around the other areas.

Do you remember any more about the mushroom compost innoculation business?  

Anner Whitehead
HIPSource@aol.com



 

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