>Thanks Steve and Frank for your excellent examples of the sort of >food production experience that should be being shared more and more >on this list. -Allan
I wanted to do lots in the garden this fall & winter but the wife wants to get all the house renovations done as soon as possible, so... the honey-do list has pretty much replaced the garden to-do list for now. I am brewing a batch of cow manure tea in an 80 gallon container to which was added 1,000 ml of homeopathic compost preps with a spritz of 508 on the top. Another batch of compost preps will be added again later. The tea will be put out through the drip system and sprayed on the plants. All I have time to grow now are cover crops. The cow peas are doing well against grasshopper attacks but the sun hemp was devoured. Every one is having lots of problems with grasshoppers here in southern Arizona. Every summer when the monsoons come the eggs hatch and it's a big problem. I tried using nosema on them, hopefully it will help but I definitely plan to do some serious ashing. I'm waiting for the next installment of H. Courtney's recomendations to find out when the next best ashing period is. I made up a batch of homeopathic Azomite that I spray on the ground and even a batch of homeopathic humic acid. Would like to do petry dish tests with them to see how the different potencies influence sprouting... as time permits next year. Will try Charles Wilber's method of growing tomatoes next year, my cages won't be more than 8 feet tall though. He speaks so highly of Kudzu that I ordered some seed and will make compost and tea from it and see for myself. Also, plans are under way to build a root cellar. Why not take advantage of the natural coolness of the earth. It should work well in the hot summer's here. -Chris
