Re: RES: [compost_tea] Giant vegetables

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 23:55:09 EST

Hi Tom -

You suggested it was merely long day length that resulted in giant
vegetables. I countered that. It isn't just long day length that results in
giant vegetables.

If you want to say it wasn't CT, when John gets his large vegies and his
neighbors don't, when Jose has giant vegies and the growers around him do
not, and when Scott gets giant daylillies, and other growers in similar soil
and climate do not, then you need to explain what you think it could be
instead of the CT.

I think what you are doing is saying that because ALL people don't get giant
vegies with CT, that therefore CT cannot be the cause of the giant vegies.
This is not correct logic.

The correct thing to ask is, what might be in combination with CT in these
areas that result in giant vegies.

Or is it the way these folks make their CT? The machine they use?

You must look for the common thread that allows these people to get giant
vegies, and things that other people do not do, so that they do not get giant
vegies.

When making observations, you have to be a detective. Why do these people in
such different places manage giant plants? What is the same? What is
different?

Why don't you get giant vegies? What is different about your soil, your
climate, your conditions?

Maybe lack of constant water?

Instead of implying that these folks are, ah, well, ah, less than
clear-sighted about the causes of their large vegie syndrome :-) that's a
grin there - you might try to determine why they get large vegies and you
don't.

So, Scott, John, Jose - are you in high rainfall areas, or low? If they are
all in high rainfall, then we can search for folks in high rainfall areas
that don't get giant vegies.

What is different between high rainfall giant vegie producers and the high
rainfall non-giant vegie producers? And if there seems to be a common
factor, and we remedy that in the non-giant vegie producers, could the
non-giants get giants?

Tom, I know you like to poke at people and make them think. Poking is a good
way to do make people think, but it sometimes also makes for hard feelings.

So, as long as everyone understands how Tom works, and no one gets ruffled
feelings, we'll think and not react. Right?

And maybe not all of us want giant vegies.

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com



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Received on Mon Nov 25 2002 - 00:06:39 EST

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