Allan Balliett wrote:
PS But I, for one, don't think you need to pepper for your snakes. I
think you need to investigate your bioregional biological
interelationships and 'solve' your snake problem by maximizing
diversity rather than 'reducing' it
I couldn't agree more. Nevertheless, there
Cow shit or fish guts and breath deeply.
Barbara and Woody
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From:
Let's be smart enough, though, to actually find her website:
www.soilfoodweb.com not .org
Frank
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From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2002 11:18 PM
Subject: Soil Foodweb Questions?
Hey, Friends!
I'm very
Hi Allan,
Check out:
http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/page2.htm
Found at
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/aquaponic.html#speraneo
and see also
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/aquaponic.html
That would start you out with an organic, hydroponic system working in
tandem with fish rearing, that
Let's be smart enough, though, to actually find her website:
www.soilfoodweb.com not .org
Frank
Oh, Frank. You're setting yourself up! ;-)
I have black rot problems in my vineyard. I have
heard lots of people say the way to prevent is to keep
the vineyard floor cleaner than your kitchen table
which I interpret to mean, no mulch under the vines.
1. Do you agree?
2. Do you know whether compost teas are effective
against black
For those of us still dowsing impaired, lab tests are important in assessing
results. The cost of testing compost tea to determine the diversity of
microbial life and the effectiveness of various additions to the brew can be
a barrier to perfecting a compost tea product. You can't always wait
Incidentally, if you don't have a plague of foxes then you probably
don't know that they get into your raised beds and dig GREAT BIG
HOLES (looking for something they think is in there to eat, I assume)
If you plant small patches for diveristy, they can destroy an entire
crop overnight. They
Allan Balliett wrote:
(American wire fence going up around the
garden before this coming growing season)
Let me tell you, if they are as smart there as they are here,
they will find a way to dig a tunnel under your American wire
fence...
- fernando
--
REDUZIR, REUSAR, RECICLAR -- Dever
Kiwis!!
I'm in the process of writing a review of BIODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVES and
have just realized that I know about the writers (other than Peter
Proctor) There seems to be no biographical information in the book
itself.
Can anyone help me with this? (I'll post a list of authors, it that
is
BIODYNAMICS Journal has offered to run announcements for BD Now! in
their future issues. The 'ads' will be text-based and small, similar
to the 'ads' currently run for Caretaker Gazette. (The deadline is
also immediate. No later than tomorrow.) Those of you who have been
reading BD Now! for
My experience is that foxes are especially numerous this year, as are
weasels. Probably to highlight the burgeoning political atrocities,
similar in energy.
Essie
At 08:48 AM 1/9/02 -0300, you wrote:
Allan Balliett wrote:
(American wire fence going up around the
garden before this
Let me tell you, if they are as smart there as they are here,
they will find a way to dig a tunnel under your American wire
fence...
- fernando
Yes, fernando. That sort of narrows it down, doesn't it? -Allan
haha! mulching is good David! the cold system however cools the soil down
to 40's with air temp in 80's...a bit more than mulchings shade effect :-)
cooling the soil also seems to switch on and off signals to the plant so it
goes into turbo charge mood. With temperate climate plants it allows 4
At 10:07 PM 1/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
As I understand it, plants are basically a thermo engine, using warm leaves
evaporating moisture to create the sucking to pull up the nutrients
absorbed by the cooler roots. The greater the temperature difference (delta
T) between roots and leaves, the more
Regarding the backyard scale, aquarium bubbler compost brewer,
what is the current research regarding how that compost tea compares to
commercially brewed tea?
We have heard that commercial brewers must take care to sterilize the walls
and surfaces between batches. Why is that? Why do the
Soil Foodweb Week at BD-Now:
Here are some additional resources as background material to the soil
foodweb week at BD-Now, Elaine Ingham's work with compost teas,
etc.
Notes on Compost Teas: A 2001 Supplement to the ATTRA Publication
Compost Teas for Plant Disease Control
Dr Ingham,
I would appreciate comments on VAM's, including answers to the following
(excuse my fundamental ignorance of this topic):
-The literature which I have access to indicates that they are of
significance in the growth of trees, but there is nothing on their role in
annual crop
How are we to create a superior fungal-bacterial compost to spray on
commercially worked farmland to improve and maintain a high level of
fertility [shown by life in the soil???] SStorch
Hello S. Storch -
The way to achieve a more fungal compost is to add more fungal foods.
Typically,
A current problem for those of us who accept manures, yardwastes, and
agricultural materials such as straw from off site, is contamination with
xenobiotic substances.
A recent arrival on this front is Clopyralid, and its sister compound
Picloram which have contaminated commercial composts and
Allan Balliett wrote:
What are some practical amendments and microbial stimulants for
tweaking the teas.
I've written a 75 page book about this, which you might want to
get. I hate to advertise myself, but just in case you are
interested, the book is:
The Compost Tea Brewing Manual, $25
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From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: ashing
Incidentally, if you don't have a plague of foxes then you probably
don't know that they get into your raised beds and dig GREAT BIG
HOLES
Allan Balliett wrote:
*Optimum tillage for annual crops, what sort of balance can growers
look towards in light of the soil foodweb. Comments on deep tillage
such as spaders to no-till like Groff to heavy mulching like Emilia
Hazelip to surface cultivation such as Eliot Coleman.
The
BDers:
This reminded me of the potential for abuse when science stumbles onto yet
another more efficient means of doing human bidding by a more direct
Life-process.
Let them not discover too quickly/unqualifiedly the various
plant/colour/metal/planet correlations... manfred
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Allan Balliett wrote:
BD preps work the same way, I think. Why? They have the
organisms in them that inhibit, compete with and consume the
disease-causing organisms. I think we could do alot to making certain
that the BD preps work every time if we understood the organisms in
the preps
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