Re: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread Lloyd Charles
- Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 11:40 PM Subject: Re: Nutrient blockers Good quality humic acid is a valuable material - used in small quantities - but beware there are some coal based products that are

Re: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread Manda Pie
Dear Mr Charles, Your emails are being sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] my server says the isp is mis-rooting the email thanks for seeing into this Sincerely, Pie Lloyd Charles wrote: - Original Message - From: tachung_h [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

Re: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread Manda Pie
Dear Sir, Your emails are reaching [EMAIL PROTECTED] My server says the senders isp is mis-routing the emails Thanks for looking into this situation, Sincerely, M. Pie tachung_h wrote: What are the experience from members of this list in using Humic Acid to buffer the negative

Re: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread Manda Pie
Dear Mr Balliett, Your emails are reaching [EMAIL PROTECTED] in error, My server says the senders isp is mis-routing the email Thanks for looking into this matter. Sincerely M Pie Allan Balliett wrote: Thanks, Tony. Would you mind being more precise with your

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Re: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread Allan Balliett
Friends - I took the exact to this contrary cell this afternoon. Let's hope for the best. -Allan Balliett, moderator, BIODYNAMICS NOW!

Re: equisetum

2002-10-13 Thread kentjamescarson
Sorry to be out of touch, been entertaining and mucking stalls after all this rain!We've been on the equisetum quest for a while now. I brought a jug of our experiment up to the conference, and caught a moment of Hugh Courtney's time to ask his opinion on the smell. I guess I should have asked

Re: equisetum

2002-10-13 Thread kentjamescarson
Allen i can't believe you sent that site! - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 8:34 AM Subject: Re: equisetum There's a good photo display of hyemale at http://members.eunet.at/m.matus/e_berkley.html It

RE: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread tachung_h
What are the experience from members of this list in using Humic Acid to buffer the negative impact of inorganic fertilizer such as NH4 and to allow minerals to be easily absorbed by plants. Regards TaChung Huang (¶À¤j©¾) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread Allan Balliett
Thanks, Tony. Would you mind being more precise with your recommendations, especially in regard to the humic acid? (I guess I really need the same info about the molasses, also.) Sort of Which? What Kind of? How Much? How frequently, and so on? Thanks! -Allan Allan try adding some humic acid

Industrial Timber Plantations - Sustainable?

2002-10-13 Thread Philip Owen
Dear BDNow Here in Mpumalanga Escarment, South Africa, most of the original climax grasslands have been planted to industrial monoculture pine and eucalyptus plantations. Both these species are alien to the region. These alien timber plantations are the mother of all monocultures,

Re: equisetum

2002-10-13 Thread Allan Balliett
At 12:03 PM 10/11/2002 -0400, Sharon wrote: Equisetium arvense is the recommended one for biodynamics, we had the other hymale growing in our garden and did an experiment, with fermenting it. The hymale did not have the strong potent smell as does the arvense, although it is similar. it seems

Re: grasses

2002-10-13 Thread Roger Pye
COYOTEHILLFARM wrote: Hallo Can you recommend lowgrowing grasses or other plants to improve the grapes growing ability to produce ? Per Garp/NH Grasses, no; mulch, yes. A study conducted in 1997/8 in Victoria and South Australia found that the use of straw-type (as opposed to woodchip)

Re: forest to farm

2002-10-13 Thread Roger Pye
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure, we been doing that for three hundred and fifty years in the usa. But with what long-standing - sustainable - success? roger

Rivers of Energy

2002-10-13 Thread Roger Pye
Neither the course nor aspect of the Snowy River described in 'Rivers of Time' match those elements of the present 'Snowy', or even the river since settlement of the Great South Land by Aboriginals many thousands of years ago. The description I gave, and which found echoes in the thoughts of

Re: equisetum

2002-10-13 Thread Allan Balliett
There's a good photo display of hyemale at http://members.eunet.at/m.matus/e_berkley.html It appears that the pictures that I mentioned earlier that showed hyemale with 'leaves' were actually pictures of arvense. It also appears that hyemale tends to be a much larger plant (over 5 ft at

Re: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread Lloyd Charles
- Original Message - From: tachung_h [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 8:28 PM Subject: RE: Nutrient blockers What are the experience from members of this list in using Humic Acid to buffer the negative impact of inorganic fertilizer such as NH4

Re: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread Lloyd Charles
- Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 13, 2002 8:53 PM Subject: Re: Nutrient blockers Thanks, Tony. Would you mind being more precise with your recommendations, especially in regard to the humic acid? (I guess I really

Re: Nutrient blockers

2002-10-13 Thread Allan Balliett
Good quality humic acid is a valuable material - used in small quantities - but beware there are some coal based products that are detrimental to plant growth so you need to test first or know someone that has used the product successfully on crop plants. There are humates made for use in mining