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From: Roger Pye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: Perfect Orchard-Calcium
> Allan Balliett wrote:
>
> > . . . . Pfeiffer, in practice, however, was open to the use of
> > chemical fertilizers to get the soil productive enough to produce
> > cover crops that could have benefit if once turned into the soil. (A
> > person starting a bd project on an abused piece of ground - - as
> > almost every square foot of american ground is EVEN much of what is
> > covered by forest today - - may need to go to extremes to create those
> > first few crops that the well established german farmers steiner was
> > speaking to during the lectures did not have to)
>
>
> You may not believe that I cringe when I read of people advocating the
> use of chemical fertilisers in the face of overwhelming evidence of
> their destructive qualities. Identities whose reputations are such that
> less knowledgeable people follow blindly in their footsteps. Well, I do
> cringe - and so should you.
> I contend there is no justification for any use of chemical fertilisers,
> for the subjugation of 'Quality' to 'Quantity', for the abandonment or
> rejection of holisticism in farming.
>
Roger
dont you think you have got a bit carried away with this?
After all we were talking about minute amounts of calcium nitrate used not
as fertiliser but as a material to activate and catalyse soil calcium and to
deter weed growth on farmland in conversion. 2 pounds per acre in an
application!!
Just for the record there is still a goodly amount of mineral deficient, low
brix organic produce (and probably some BD stuff too) around that is
probably way worse for your health than what the eco farmers are producing
using the sort of program that I've talked about in this thread. You know
the destructive qualities of the salt fertiliser materials have much more to
do with the quantities used and the manner in which they are used than the
actual makeup of the fertilisers in many cases. Too much of anything is bad
for soil health (rain water included), but most fertilisers can be
beneficial in some circumstances IF they are used correctly. That is for the
benefit of the soil not the benefit of the fertiliser salesman!
Cheers
Lloyd Charles
I am not trying to argue that conventional fertiliser use is good for soils!
