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Re: potato torture

Tom sent me this message off-list but I am sending it to the list because
it started me thinking about another screwy possibility.

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:19:08 -0500 Thomas Olenio <tolenio@world.std.com>
writes:
>Stan,
>
>Do you remember the "Flubber" movies Disney did in the 60's?
>
>The second film dealt with a by-product of flubber called "flubber
>gas".  Good ol'e professor Brainard used it to make rain, "dry rain" 
>as
>it turns out (forced nitrogen into the soil).
>
>We recently bought the video for our 2 and 5 year olds and I have seen
>it mayber 300 times in the past month, so "dry rain" was forefront in 
>my
>mind.
>
>Happy spring, and if you happen upon any flubber gas, let me know.
>
>Tom
>

When I was working for the telephone company as a lineman back in the
60's, we used to use "dry nitrogen" to keep our open splices dry over
night.  It came in a big, pressurized bottle (like those tall propane,
oxygen, acetylene, bottles) with a pressure gauge on it.  We would put a
temporary "seal" on the splice and run a line from the nitrogen bottle to
the splice and keep just a small amount of the dry nitrogen fed to the
splice under very low pressure.
     Since I know next to nothing about how nitrogen works as a
fertilizer, do you think that this may have some possibilities?  A buried
tube with some small pinhole "leaks" directly under the plants would
deliver the nitrogen to the right place and possibly saturate the soil
with nitrogen.  Of course it couldn't be on all the time or it would
replace all the oxygen in the soil, but then again it may asphyxiate the
bugs in the ground?  
     I suppose that if this does work, commercial growers would have done
something with it a long time ago.  
     Yes, I know that the air we breathe is 78% nitrogen already but
there isn't necessarily an abundance of air in the soil.  
     It probably won't "fix" the nitrogen into the soil anyway.  (I have
no idea what "fix" means, but it makes me sound knowledgeable).  
     Just a thought.   ( I've got to do something while waiting for my
garden to dry out)

Stan        The cheap and lazy guy who digs in the dirt out back.

P.S.  To guarantee a successful garden;  simply change your definition of
successful.
          I did.

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