Re: Incorporating Manures During the Growing Season
Hi Allan Chicken litter is strong on nitrogen so it will make any crop you plant grow rapidlyand hence prone to insect attack . Before spading in spread some humic powder over chicken manure and also spray with some molasses. This will soak up some of the excess nitrogen and hold it for next year. Humic powder is a good alternative if you are low on compost. if you are able to mix it with the chicken litter it will allow you to spread the litter further. Cheers Tony Robinson New Zealand - Original Message - From: A Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 04, 2002 10:09 PM Subject: Incorporating Manures During the Growing Season I probably need someone to slap me silly on this one, but maybe not. I'm managing a 163 share CSA this season and, for a variety of reasons, have been operating with a compost deficit all season. Now we're coming to plantingtime for the fall crops and I'm wondering about incorporating all that beautiful chicken litter that's accrued in the coop since this spring in beds before planting. As you know, my motto has always been 'compost, compost, and more compost,' but this year it's gone faster than I can make it plus a friend here in VA is growing circles around me thanks (in part, I'm sure) o the poop he incorporated last fall What say? I'm talking maybe two pickup loads into two 400 sq ft raised beds, spraying with BC and Field Spray, spading in, and letting it sit for, say 3 weeks before planting brassica's into it. It's the devil talking, I'm sure, but I can find the time to incorporate the litter but am not likely to find the time to make an appropriate compost stack out of it until the fall. Advice, please. Thanks -Allan
Re: Drip Tape
Is anyone using t-tape to get BC out in the root zone on a regular basis? Hi Allan Yes i have being putting all the preps through both trickle and over head irrigation. All my liqiud fertiliser brews have BC in them and are fed to crops on a weekly basis . It is a quick and efficient way of getting them out on to paddocks when you are busy. I see it as no different then using compost as the medium for getting the preps out.. particularly when you are bring new ground in to the bd fold. Cheers Tony Robinson New Zealand
Re: St John's Tide and bd remedies
Dear Robin, Excellent web page. May I suggest you look at the paragraph on 'Lunar Movements and Tides'. Last sentence.As the earth rotates, the bulge follows the side facing the Moon so there is a high tide about every 6 hours. Here we only get a high tide every 12 hours. My original question on root, leaf, flower or fruit years was not answered fully. Could some one expand on this intensify the 501 and what determines a root,leaf, flower or fruit year? It's new to me. Couldthe influence of Jupiter and the background constellationdetermine the influence year? Jupiter takes 11.86 years to circle the Sun. So Jupiter as seen fromEarth stays in the same constellation for about 1 year. Jupiter moves into Cancer 20th ofJuly this month. So if this is correct we are now moving towards a leaf year. could someone confirm this? Peter. - Original Message - From: Robin Duchesneau To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 05, 2002 5:53 AM Subject: Re: St John's Tide and bd remedies Hi, My boring answer to Peter, and/or all new comers to the celestial component of BD gardening, is to read the excellent web page of the Oregon Biodynamic Group. There you willfind all sorts of stuffnamelyclasses.Fortunately there is a class on COSMIC INFLUENCES. For those who know about that stuff, but have never seen the page, will be delighted to see some original graphs of Maria Thuns experiments.Real neat! http://www.oregonbd.org/Class/Mod3.htm Rbn
Control of pharming
Today's 'New Scientist' (as I've said before, not noticeably anti-GMO) is very concerned about both the concept and the control of genetically modifying plants to produce therapeutic drugs. They ask, why use food plants? (Answer - much more is known about growing them). They point out that, whereas a distaste for plants genetically modified for flavour, shelf-life or herbicide resistance could be dismissed as cranky, the fear that a powerful drug might escape into a similar crop grown for food is a very real one. The USDA is heavily criticised for its very feeble program of regulating GMOs: for example, separation distances have been set quite arbitrarily and the rules for keeping harvested crops segregated are vague and possibly unenforceable. The article also points to loopholes - for example, maize engineered to produce the protein Avidin (which is known to be harmful to insects) doesn't come under control because the product isn't a drug and the crop isn't being grown to kill insects. I guess that you guys in the USA know more about this - any comments? I note that, once the regulations are finally published, the public will have 120 days to respond. I hope that you've all got your pens sharpened ready? As US food crops are an international rather than a domestic issue, I'd like to have my say - can anyone give me the relevant USDA address? James White is said to be the USDA's branch chief for biotech evaluations. Tony N-S. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
Changing the subject (was Should Australia go native)
Sorry to appear as a whining old fogey, but could we please remember to change the subject field when the topic changes? The latest post has nothing at all to do with the original topic and it's very confusing if one is trying to follow that original argument! Tony N-S. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Re: Drip Tape
Tony - What tape/hose are you using for drip and what sort of injector/siphon? What do you filter/screen with? -Allan
Re: Changing the subject (was Should Australia go native ) reply
sorry tony about the confusion, i was relating to the last statement ,,anyone out there making preps? i personally have never been to austrailia , or even out of the country, but we do grow medicinal herbs from there. what is a nasty invasive plant to one ; is a food, medicine or thing of beauty to another . we are interested in growing as much of our own food, and medicines as possibe , much as all of our ancestors did. these days there are a lot more choices. .. i think it is a good thing, for more people to get more involved all over the world in producing their own food. so we won't be so dependent on imports or mass marketing. have you heard of the white list ? these days of global mixing, i don't think there is anymore, anywhere- totally native.. but it sure is a good starting point to go out in our neighborhoods and find out what is and is not native . see - j. l. huhson rare seeds--- ( i don't know the web site) about the white list- ... hope this doesn't confuse things even more !love sharon- Original Message - From: Tony Nelson-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 11:20 AM Subject: Changing the subject (was Should Australia go native) Sorry to appear as a whining old fogey, but could we please remember to change the subject field when the topic changes? The latest post has nothing at all to do with the original topic and it's very confusing if one is trying to follow that original argument! Tony N-S. _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com
Re: Drip Tape
In a message dated 7/4/02 9:38:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
JPI's instructions for BC useage clearly allows for stringent
straining of the stirred BC before application. I'm wondering if
anyone on BD Now! is putting BC out this way (or compost teas).
I have been using bc as an inoculant for compost tea. It really gets the
microbes ands fungus going.
Doing this, of course, would violate the 'thou shalt not dilute
stirred preps' rule.
That is a dogmatic an wrong rule. I feel that the stirred remedies have a
far greater instinct to correct a disturbed environment {ie: a river or
irrigation system} than for the preps to get ruined by it. I have been
working on restoring the bay system by applying the bd remedies to
it...sstorch
