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Re: Progress in environmental farming -Forwarded
I should most certainly deny that organic soil amendments are too
expensive.
When I moved into this new development in San Diego, I found that all the
land around must be old river bed, as it is nothing but masses of rounded,
water-worn stones of great variety. To dig a hole 3 inches across you end
up with a hole 3 ft across, because under each rock is another larger one,
etc. so you just keep digging up more stones, with only a dab of clay
holding them together.
I figured that was hopeless, so I shoveled in 5 double-semi loads of pure
yellow sand, without any pebbles in it, just ground up rocks from the
quarry right behind my lot.
I shoveled in enough to make my yard 3 feet higher than the neighbors'
yards, and I had to have a cement block wall built wo contain that depth
of sand.
THEN I AMENDED THAT PURE SAND WITH ORGANIC AMENDMENTS, and was exceedingly
pleased with the results. I collected amendments and then rototilled them
into the sand, around and across and diagonally, and ended up with a whole
yard of black crumbs.
Everything grew like crazy, and no pests.
The trouble most people have is that they do not amend the soil with
enough and a great enough variety of amendments, and so they do not have
REAL SOIL, and get troubles with pests and disease therefore.
B. Rateaver
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