Guest guest Posted April 24, 2002 Report Share Posted April 24, 2002 Chi are you familiar with a soil amendment branded PLANTERS? If so, would you consider it effective to grow veggies " beyond organic " ? I don't have soil test numbers so we're talking educated guess for an area in north central Kansas near mud creek. TIA, Dennis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2002 Report Share Posted April 24, 2002 --- In @y..., " dkemnitz2000 " <dkemnitz2000@y...> wrote: > Chi are you familiar with a soil amendment branded PLANTERS? If > so, would you consider it effective to grow veggies > " beyond organic " ? I don't have soil test numbers so > we're talking educated guess for an area in north > central Kansas near mud creek. TIA, Dennis Hi Dennis: Sorry, I am not familiar with the soil amendment branded PLANTERS. (When I hear Planters, I think peanuts.) Do you have a web site for it? I don't think the mystery of improving soil fertility has been solved yet in order to grow " beyond organic " . It happens to be something I started working on when I realized that before you could get high nutrition, " isolated primitive " type foods, you would first require high soil fertility. In most areas, if not all, soil fertility has declined, so we need to determine what are the best methods to restore soil fertility. Sad to say, few are interested in solving the problem. Chi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2002 Report Share Posted April 24, 2002 Chi, I just received in the mail the book " Building Soils for Better Crops " by Fred Magdoff and Harold van Es. I wondered if you are familiar with it and, if so, what your opinion of it is. TIA, C. ----- Original Message ----- From: soilfertility Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 7:28 PM Subject: Re: soil fertility > Chi are you familiar with a soil amendment branded PLANTERS? If > so, would you consider it effective to grow veggies > " beyond organic " ? I don't have soil test numbers so > we're talking educated guess for an area in north > central Kansas near mud creek. TIA, Dennis Hi Dennis: Sorry, I am not familiar with the soil amendment branded PLANTERS. (When I hear Planters, I think peanuts.) Do you have a web site for it? I don't think the mystery of improving soil fertility has been solved yet in order to grow " beyond organic " . It happens to be something I started working on when I realized that before you could get high nutrition, " isolated primitive " type foods, you would first require high soil fertility. In most areas, if not all, soil fertility has declined, so we need to determine what are the best methods to restore soil fertility. Sad to say, few are interested in solving the problem. Chi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2002 Report Share Posted April 24, 2002 > I just received in the mail the book " Building Soils for Better Crops " by Fred Magdoff and Harold van Es. I wondered if you are familiar with it and, if so, what your opinion of it is. Hi : Sorry , I haven't read that book. If you post what it suggests, I could give my opinion. The proof is in the pudding. If you build a better soil, you will have no problem with insect damage and your crop will taste amazing. You will be able to grow open pollinated seeds and save your seeds, year after year. You won't need to grow hybrids to produce a crop. Chi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2002 Report Share Posted April 24, 2002 > I just received in the mail the book " Building Soils for Better Crops " by Fred Magdoff and Harold van Es. I wondered if you are familiar with it and, if so, what your opinion of it is. Hi : Sorry , I haven't read that book. If you post what it suggests, I could give my opinion. The proof is in the pudding. If you build a better soil, you will have no problem with insect damage and your crop will taste amazing. You will be able to grow open pollinated seeds and save your seeds, year after year. You won't need to grow hybrids to produce a crop. Chi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 11, 2004 Report Share Posted February 11, 2004 On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 19:55:15 -0800 " Berg " <bberg@...> wrote: >By the way, does anyone here actually know what it is that makes soil >fertile? I don't know how deep you want to delve into the issue but you could start here: The Albrecht Collection http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010143albpap/010143idx.html or http://tinyurl.com/3auwy Also Albrecht's chapter from NAPD, _Food is Fabricated Soil Fertility_ might be of help. Below is a link for requesting an online version of that chapter if you don't have the book: http://tinyurl.com/34zb8 Liking http://tinyurl.com/3d8n5 " They told just the same, That just because a tyrant has the might By force of arms to murder men downright And burn down house and home and leave all flat They call the man a captain, just for that. But since an outlaw with his little band Cannot bring half such mischief on the land Or be the cause of so much harm and grief, He only earns the title of a thief. " --Geoffrey Chaucer, The Manciple's Tale Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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