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Re: Potato torture update


On Tue, 26 May 1998 11:33:36 -1000 James Ferrell <ferrell7@gte.net>
writes:
>Ross and All,
>I once lived on the property of an old burned out dairy. Lots of 
>concrete
>flat surfaces and rock soil. I had access to wheat straw and chicken 
>coupe
>manure. I layed16" piles of straw mixed liberally with chick.M. Then 
>placed
>potato's few inches under surface and watered well.(hot summers so 
>kept
>watering) The result was larger well formed spuds and very clean thin 
>skinned
>w/great taste. The best method compared to my soil garden.
>I also grew spuds by still water (non-circulating) hydroponic method. 
>(have
>soybean, peanuts, lettuce, onion and thyme now)(but can do most air, 
>leaf or
>root crops too)Now that is even more simple..no work solution.  JimF,
>horticulturalist

Chicken s---!     EEEEEEUUUUUUUUU.
     I don't know if I can do that and still eat the potatoes.   (I find
it difficult
to eat chicken because, well, it still looks like a chicken even after it
is
cooked.)(Chicken nuggets are OK)  Hamburger, OTOH, doesn't resemble a cow
at all.  I like that in an animal.  
     Seriously now.  Did you only have to apply it once?  Do you think
that
the stuff they sell at the home center stores in those nice clean plastic
bags 
would work the same?  I'm not looking forward to opening that bag.  Yes,
I am a city boy.   Do they make chicken manure nuggets or something like
that?  Oh boy.  Come to think of it, where exactly does a chicken nugget
come
from?   
     You know, I'll bet that becoming a vegetarian isn't all that bad.
Can I use steer manure instead?  I've had birds dive bomb me
in the past and for the most part, they have been pretty accurate.  I
hate
when that happens.  Never had that happen from a steer. 
     Yet.
Thanks a lot.

Stan,           the cheap and lazy and foulophobic gardener

P.S.   This really is a serious inquiry.   Honest.



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