Re: [compost_tea] Re: detrimentals not beneficials
I am both acedemically and directly interested in all
of the questions of growing assuming that most
information can be used across some spectrum of
aplications.
Mulch does suppress weed growth for a while but over
the long hall it is a wonderful seed starter. And i do
pull but somewhere during the growing season something
sprouts in the mulch. And I really want carefree
landscape, egg in my beer, pie in the sky.
I have started ajuga 'Crispa' which grows slow but
close together and it suppresses most everything.
Still just from a curiosity standpoint, what to do?
Your answer is a layered crop procedure in the field
which fits with a theory I read to long ago to site.
That a balanced system needed 7 different plants
growing together to reach equilibrium. The argurment
was that they fed each other, ajuga needs n, tree
needs p and each takes from the other what it needs.
Wish I had kept that information, very interesting.
An agronamist at UK once told me that mono-grass lawns
were just the wrong thing to do. He said let grow what
appears because it likes the spot where it appeared
and add some seed along the way. As you mow it will
stay ahead of the seeding of most unwelcome weeds and
you will in up with a beautiful lawn that is different
than a putting green but very healthy.
--- David Anderson <squtch_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:47:13 -0700 (PDT), butch
> ragland
> <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > interesting
> >
> > my first inquiry was related to a mulched area in
> my
> > landscape where i do not want any plants
>
> That is kinda funny because one thing I was going to
> suggest was to go
> with heavy mulch if you want to control weeds, then
> I figured you were
> probably thinking of a more agricultural situation.
> If you are getting
> weeds through your mulch, make the mulch thicker.
> And when they do pop
> up, they are easy to pull.
>
> This is total speculation on my part, but has always
> seemed to me that
> any attempt to try and block *every* plant leads to
> having a much
> worse selection of plants start to grow. Nature
> abhors bare soil and
> will send you some nice tough plants to grow there
> if some of the nice
> varieties don't like it there.
>
> > how does the system work in a row crop where no
> other
> > plants are growing such a some corn or tomatoes
> > situations?
>
> That sure doesn't sound like my corn or tomatoes. I
> keep the weeds
> around the tomatoes to no more than 6 inches high,
> but that is mostly
> so I can reach the lower tomatoes. And the corn has
> enough soybeans,
> and squash growing in between them that they easily
> out-compete most
> weeds. Most everything else out competes weeds, or
> just isn't bothered
> by the weeds.
>
> I really think weeding is highly over-rated. I take
> care of the
> troublesome ones and leave the rest be. Garlic and
> onions are the only
> things that get more than a minor amount of weeding
> effort. Of course,
> blackberry and canadian thistle get pulled
> immediately, but that is
> because it can get really painful to pull them
> later.
>
> Dave
>
=====
Butch Ragland
Conflict is as addictive as
cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes,etc
I'm sorry to report that
cooperation is not
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