Dear Liz,
Seems like a pretty interesting soil. I have been watching the posts of all
the experts on the subject, however I feel that there are some points that
they may have missed because of lack of local knowledge.
The soil that you describe common around the area going back into Hampton,
and down around Cox's Creek , and on the Eastern side of the highway at
Little Hartley. It is also common around Kandos and Rylstone.
The soil is derived from a limestone/dolomite geological base which
underlies the the volcanic cap. The volcanics are probably very rich in
Magnesium. These types of small creek flat areas can turn up in the middle
of a dense forest, there is just a clearing in the forest where trees wont
grow.
The other point that was not mentioned is that the soil would obviously be
diamagnetic. Basalt dust will help to increase the paramagnetism of the
soil.
Any trees to do well require to be the opposite polarity of the soil . is
the soil positive, neutral or negative charge. You will need to select trees
that have the opposite charge.
Get your pendulum out, and check whether you get a positive or negative
reading on the soil and on the proposed plants. They must be opposite
charge.
How is your course going at OAC. I obtained my Bachelor of Man.{Hort] from
there. If there is anything that I can help you or your friend with just
contact me off line.
I would like to get a sample of the soil to test and see what I can come up
with. As you probably know I come from Running Stream which is not very far
from you.
Regards
James
Radiasesthesia and Radionic Analysis
Radionic Insect and Parasite control
Bioethical Agriculture Consultant
----- Original Message -----
From: "Liz Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 6:17 AM
Subject: Re: Soil Test
> Hi Robin
>
> I'd thought of the wood chips/leaf & twig litter but thought I may be
going
> off on a personal tangent.
> Worms were evident when planting trees. The penetrometer was buried to
its
> full depth. The geology is the edge of a basalt plateau, which was
cleared
> in 1860. In the last 18 yrs there has only been grazing of sheep, with
that
> rarely occurring in the last 10 yrs. The front of the property (on main
> highway) was tested for heavy metals and they were found to be low, there
> were no heavy metal tests for the tree paddock. Native trees is the aim
for
> this paddock, Casurinas to be specific. Severe frosts for at least 6
months
> of the year, rainfall average of 800ml. and wicked winds which power one
of
> Australia's largest wind generator projects.
>
> As for evidence of plants, most of the 700 trees planted have died.
>
> thanks for your time on this Robin, hope this info has been more helpful.
>
> L&L
> Liz
>
>
> on 30/9/02 7:11 AM, Robin Duchesneau at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Dear Liz,
> >
> > It is difficult to advise based solely from the soil test numbers below.
A
> > better soil test is by looking at the performance of plants, and
searching
> > for macro-and micro-organisms (worms are the easiest bioindicator). A
pH 7
> > seems good for most crops (interesting for a forest soils), NPK is
about
> > 1:10:100. Low N, high P; good for flowers. Do you have more
information on
> > the history of the site? What's the geology of the site? Any past
> > contamination's? What does your friend want to grow?
> >
> > Do you remember the BDNow posts on wood chips? Perhaps your friend
could
> > benefit from these discussions. In a nut shell, she could chip some
twigs
> > (only from small branches) from the deciduous trees and incorporate a
thin
> > layer in the top soil. This method has been showed to produce excellent
> > vegetable crops. It provides a good substrate and source of C/N for
soil
> > microorganisms.
> >
> > Regard
> >
> > Robin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Liz Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: 28 septembre, 2002 15:02
> > Subject: Soil Test
> >
> >
> >> Greetings All,
> >>
> >> A friend of mine (not on the net) is wanting to start BD on her 10
acres
> > of
> >> native trees and raspberries. The soil in the tree paddock is like
nothing
> >> the Perry lab has seen. Although I've learnt about soils, I do not have
> > the
> >> BD knowledge yet to help her with this difficult soil.
> >>
> >>
> >> Soil Results Black soil
> >> TEC 16.99 pH 7 N 90 sulphates 4 phosp 57 Ca 2426 31.79%
> >> Mg 2628 57.4% Pot 528 3.55% sod 2.87 iron 1000, zinc 4.6 Boron.7
> >>
> >> If anyone can comment it would be appreciated, Steph is keen to start
> >> working on it ASAP.
> >> Thanks for your time
> >> L&L
> >> Liz
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
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