I am just beginning to read Allan Savoy's Holistic Management and he talks about brittle environments which I think describes us here. In August and September, we are likely to get nary a drop of rain. If one were trying to discourage common tansy, knapweed and hawkweed and encourage the native flora under drought conditions and in poor soil
in a brittle environment, what are the basic issues here? 1) Common tansy, knapweed and hawkweed stay alive during the drought, e.g. are green. The grass the county prefers has dead tops and is a fire hazard in a fire-prone area. To keep from being sprayed, yet keep down the fire hazard, we need to propagate native broadleaf plants that stay green in drought instead of grass. Yes or no? 2) If the county has sprayed Curtail (2,4-D and Clopyralid) two years ago and you had the droughtiest summer ever in 2001, are there any microorganisms in the dry, sandy, rocky right-of-way? 3) Is there a particular way to approach a brittle environment in putting microorganisms back into the soil...particular microorganisms that are best? Would Pfeiffer field spray do the trick? Will the microorganisms just die in August? 4) (For BD farmers) If you were using a radionic field broadcaster over a large area of wild land for weed control, would you need to broadcast BC first to get the compost remedies in the soil, or are the 500, 501, horn clay and weed peppers enough by themselves? Is there any other way to approach weed control in a whole watershed, a huge, brittle, natural, wild area? >
