Re: I believe there is another unknown factor at work too.
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: I believe there is another unknown factor at work too.
- From: P* O*
- Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 16:46:47 -0800
- References: <4e180c88.36b637bb@aol.com>
On Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 06:24:43PM -0500, GBPUMPKIN@aol.com wrote:
> I believe AG's take something out of the soil that does not show up in soil
> tests. After ten years a decline will be seen if the missing ingredients are
> not replaced ether because the grower knows how to do this or hits on it by
> accident.
An interesting idea, and one I would bet is true. Have you tried greensand,
by the way? If so, what sort of results did you see over the years after
application?
I regularly apply greensand to my garden, and now also to my patch, to
replace trace minerals and nutrients that may have been removed and not
replaced over the years. Kelp is supposed to be good too, but I have
never tried it aside from collecting a few bags of it off the beach
whenever I visit the shore and composting it when I get home. Since I've
moved it's been too long a drive but Peaceful Valley Farm supply sells a
kelp meal and spray that I may try someday.
But it seems to me that if you compost your vines and your pumpkins and
thereby put them back in the soil every year, then other than saving the
seeds, you have a closed system and nothing much should be lost.
Shaun in Spokane.
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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the
fragile blossom that opens in the snow. -Alice M. Swaim
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