Re: spring cleaning & rot & science


tom - you make very good points about observations and jumping to
conclusions.  as a scientist, of course, i would never reach conclusions
based on my personal experience and heresay without careful testing. : )  

Personal biases do often provide hypotheses and motivation for experiments,
but i have known people who should know better to throw away results of
experiments that didn't turn out the way they expected because 'obviously'
something was wrong.  the best go on to figure out why things didn't turn out
to match their preconceptions.

which brings me to experimenting with alfalfa and molliegrubs - i am going to
do a very non-scientific test and dump some alfalfa around FALL FIESTA which
after 4 yrs has dwindled to a tiny rhizome about the size of a pencil eraser.
 i am a little afraid to try using this magic pill on rot sensitive
varieties, but i certainly have lots of material to work with....has anybody
out there tried alfalfa on varieties they know to be rot prone?  can they
outgrow rot?  or does fast, lush growth just make them more vulnerable?

interesting also to hear suspected link of roundup with rot.  that doesn't
match my experience (the beds where i use roundup between the rows have less
rot), but then i don't use it much or very often.
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