Happy Holiday's >>chipping twigs and small branches from deciduous trees > and using this as a soil fertility booster.<<<
It was posted on the "ORGANICVITICULTURE" and I'm basing my idee of wood chips composting from that source and more. <<Then follow recommendations of someone who knows how to read it.>> Will the soil test give this recommendation's or who will have the knowledge in my part of the US, NH ?? > The hardpan interferes with your vine root growth. < Yea, that's way we are digging trenches, will microbes have the ability to loosen up the hardpan and or keeping it so rots can penetrate it ? And will the wood chip composting promote microbes growth ? Witch BD prep or in what order and way does the BD prep be applied to the soil or the compost ?? Thanks Per Garp/NH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dorothy O'Brien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 09:58 AM Subject: Re: perfect orchard -The soil > Per-- > > I echo the advice to get a good soil test. Then > follow recommendations of someone who knows how to > read it. Taking advice from local farmers can > (doesn't have to be) hazardous because most of them > farm conventionally and don't have the same concerns > that organic growers do. > > For example, I followed similar advice from local > growers to apply lime several years ago. The problem > is that applying the local lime intensified my out of > whack calcium/magnesium ratio. I am still struggling > with this problem. I am spraying fish, compost tea > and using lots of mulch as one way of responding to > these problems. > > The hardpan interferes with your vine root growth. > > Adding wood chips might be great, but it can tie up > the N in your soil until they decompose. This could > slow your vine growth while its going on. > > Several months ago someone on this list posted a link > to an article from a Candadian University about > chipping twigs and small branches from deciduous trees > and using this as a soil fertility booster. As I > recall, the concentration of N in these wood chips > prevented the problem of slow decomposition. I would > like to try this, but it would require another piece > of expensive equipment. :< > > > Dorothy > > --- COYOTEHILLFARM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perfect Orchard -The soil > > > > Is it a problem having mix top soil with hardpan > > sandy soil ? > > If it is a problem what do you do to fix it ?? > > > > And after adding "calcium" (local farmer recommend 2 > > ton to the acre) > > do we need to add this stuff every year ? > > > > In this perfect orchard what do we do ? with mulch > > and added green > > manure/compost ? > > I like to add 2/4 inch of wood chips in a strip 3 > > foot wide to promote soil > > life and to limited weed growing ? > > > > Per Garp?NH > > > > Please bear with me I'm many emails behind. > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > http://mailplus.yahoo.com >
