Peat and coconut wastes

2002-06-08 Thread Frank Teuton
I can't agree that moving coconut fiber out of the tropics for the benefit of temperate zone agriculture and horticulture is anything but organic matter piracy, frankly. Peat is being laid down in Canada many times faster than it is currently being harvested, and Northern soils accumulate

Re: Peat and coconut wastes

2002-06-08 Thread Daniel Bridler
Title: Re: Peat and coconut wastes I certainly do agree with Micah that other, preferably local, materials be explored as organic matter sources. Frank Teuton For the last ten years farmers and researchers in Switzerland have trialed Chinaschilf= chinareed(?)-[Miscanthus sinensis giganteus