Re: [compost_tea] Re: Kudzu

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 15:41:52 EST

 
 
Ah, let me guess........ in another field? After the tomato crop comes down
in December? Western Oregon is a gentle enough climate that we can do
that.......
 
Grin back!!!!!!!
 
Elaine
 
 
In a message dated 3/2/2005 12:37:42 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
wbgeorge_at_verizon.net writes:


Now if we put tomatoes in hoop houses in the winter, when would we ever
plant kale? (grin)


3/2/2005 11:45:23 AM, soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:

>
>
> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:45:23 -0500 (EST)
>
> From: soilfoodweb_at_aol.com
> Subject:Re: [compost_tea] Re: Kudzu
> To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
>
>
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> Harry McCormick gets the same kinds of results, using leaf litter and
> clover compost. He picks tomatoes from June to December in Oregon. He
> protects the tomatoes from wind in plastic covered hoop houses, but the
>
> houses stand about 20 feet high, because the tomatoes reach 12 to 14 feet
> high.
>
> If you want Harry's e-mail to talk to him yourself, just e-mail me and I
can
> send you to him. Alternatively, read some of Eliot Coleman's books, where
> he gets similar results.
>
> Part of the "secret" is using a nitrogen-fixing plant in the compost mix.
> Kudzu is a nitrogen-fixer, which is why the USDA brought it into the US
from
> south-east Asia. They just neglected to pay attention to its ability to
> produce rhizomes, and the fact that it grows so fast, it smothers other
> plants out. Otherwise, it would be a great N-fixing cover crop.
>
>
> Elaine




Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
Soil Foodweb Inc., South Africa








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