Re: Drip Tape
- Original Message - From: aballiett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 5:00 AM Subject: Re: Drip Tape What tape/hose are you using for drip T tape That drips at every 20 cm. and what sort of injector/siphon? A Mazzei fertiliser injecter. I sent the list some information on this about a month ago. What do you filter/screen with? Injector comes with a screen. I put this inside a larger tube and cover it with an old pair of stockings and just clean it with fresh water before use. Cheers Tony Robinson New Zealand
boron question
Hi all I am way behind the eight ball at the moment.My old computer died of memory loss . So i had to buy a new one. Been away to my sons hockey tournement. They won the tournement Cup and i have just come out of hospital after having a hernia operation. my apologies if this is abit late. I remember someone was having problems with boron. There are two ways to fix trace element deficiencies, like boron. 1.Is to use a foliar spray programme made from fish, seaweed, chicken, and horse manure with molasses added as a buffer/ carrier.This gives you a short term immediate fix to the plant and will allow you to harvest a crop. 2 Make up a dry fertiliser mix of fish, seaweed, rockdust, and humic acid and side dress your crop and lightly work into the soilwill become available to plant s over time. This mix added to the compost heap will provide adequate nutrients for following years. If you need to add raw borate mix it with compost and humic acid before spreading and add it to the liquid fertiliser. This act as a buffer and helps to assimualte the boron into a plant usable form more readily. Cheers Tony Robinson New Zealand
Re: Insect peppers
- Original Message . I gathered some slugs (quite a few) into a bottle of alcohol and, absent minded, left them on the front porch for a couple of months in the sun.When their mates decided to eat all my wifes strawberries and I went looking for the bodies for cremation there was only some brown mucky liquid in the bottle (90 proof spirit so burning this lot isgoing to be interesting)I just used it as was to make a D8 potency andput that out with a water can - spectacular result!! The slug one worked so well that I decided to try again when we got a few white ants in the back of our house- this time I meant to do it - some termites - these boys are pretty active they ate my 1inch hardwood tomato stakes clean through three times in the one season last year - from a trap box in the yard went into a bottle of water with a bit of solubilised ant dirt from the burrows, put in the sun on the window sill for about a week or so and then potentised up - six different potencies from D8 up to 5mm mixed together and drizzled round once about six weeks ago - this one is looking good at this stage too. These were instrument potencies in both cases so there was no actual substance left the bottles - its not a fungus or disease effect! Sounds crazy I know butit really worked! Cheers all Lloyd Charles Hi all had a slug problem way back in 1994 They were decimating a quarter of an acre of daffodils. So one night at full moon I collected about 100 slugs /snails placed then into a container with about2 litres of water and let them rot away until the next full moon.I then diluted this mix one in 10 and sprayed 3 nights in row and repeatedthe exercise the following month. I started to harvesting this crop again in 95 and have been able to doso since with very little slug damage. It will be interesting to see what happens this year. Cheers Tony Robinson
Re: St John's Tide and bd remedies
I have noticed Saturn having stong effects on things but this works on a ten,and thirty years cycle approximately. Saturn takes one year to cover the ground that the moon covers in one day on average. As you mention Jupiter has about one season in each constelation. Mercury has its retrograde cycle in a different contstelation each year. This year it is in the Earth elements of Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. One thing that is often noticable in N.Z. is that it usually coincides with long or heavy snow seasons. We could well be into Mid December before the warmer weather settles in again. Regards, Peter. - Original Message - From: Peter Cotterill To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 10:45 PM Subject: 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
Re: Incorporating Manures During the Growing Season
Added to this advice I would suggest getting some compost remedies / preps./ into onto the chicken litter before it is moved if that is at all possible then treat the land again with a full set as soon as the spreading is done. It is certainly better not to spread fresh manure at all for a number of reasons but you have explained your case and I'm sure you won't be caught out again like this. Regards, Peter.
The Wizards weekend
All: I have just returned from the Radionics weekend. What a wonderful and inspiring time it was, I saw things and people that I have only read about previously and it lead me to believe that radionics has one hell of a future, I need time to take in all I have seen and learnt. Cheryl Kemp, Hamish McKay and the BDFGAA staff are to be congratulated. 44 people from as far as the North of Western Australia attended. David C
Re: Changing the subject (was Should Australia go native ) reply
Sharon - Yes, I realise what you'd done: do it myself, sometimes, unthinkingly! Retaining the original subject field does make it a little hard to follow, as the nature of the thread changes, tho'. Best to give the current topic plus (was... )in brackets. It's sometimes a bit hard to know when to change - like I'm now going to comment obliquely on the main topic of your posting! We have about one-and-three-quarters of an acre of rather wet land, of which about a third is ornamental plus veg garden, another third uncultivated but tamed (grass cut, brambles occasionally removed, trees and shrubs periodically trimmed) and the remaining third wild (rush-dominated paddock; willows, alder and birch; brambles, nettles and bracken rampant). We also have a spring-fed stream linking a number of small ponds, so we enjoy plenty of wildlife. We don't grow all the veg that we need, but tend to buy locally from farmers we know (no-one BD, few organic, no box scheme!). The usual story - I agree with you, but should do more. Tony N-S. _ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx
Re: The Wizards weekend
- Original Message - From: Robin Duchesneau To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 8 July 2002 9:18 AM Subject: Re: The Wizards weekend DS, The Radionics Wizard weekend must of been very interesting indeed. The world of subtle energies certainly can spike our curiosity. I have to admit, though, thatI like to keep a grain of skepticism when it comes to certain subject. Because,I'd only heard a bit about radionics, I decided to look it up on the web. The WWW is packed with pages explaining the phenomenon. Gosh... some will even sell you a PC version?!? SNIP . A good debate is probably needed... While I agree that good debate is always needed, I think that it would be in your interest to investigate previous discussions on broadcasters etc in the BDNOW archives. What is your feeling on this subject having been to a recent conference? The conference reinforced my belief that Radionics is a tool for the future. Have you found a pragmatic purpose for this tool for biodynamic farmers? Certainly have. I refer you to the previous discussions on broadcasters. For example, could we use the technology to ascertain plant health, or diagnose soil health conditions? Yes. I saw it done on the weekend. DO have an idea what kind of experiments we could perform to "test" the efficiency of radionics? The "tests" are already underway in that the farmers already using Radionics are happy with it and convinced that it is the right way to go. Further to that, the only person I need to convince is me. If I was worried about convincing others I wouldn't be in BD. Finally to quote the father of radionics: ``The physician is only allowed to think he knows it all, but the quack, ungoverned by conscience, is permitted to know he knows it all; and with a fertile mental field for humbuggery, truth can never successfully compete with untruth.'' - Dr. Albert Abrams Perhaps we could add " This shouldn't stop us seeking the truth" David C - Original Message - From: D S Chamberlain To: BDNOW Sent: July 7, 2002 4:08 AM Subject: The Wizards weekend All: I have just returned from the Radionics weekend. What a wonderful andinspiring time it was, I saw things and people that I have only read aboutpreviously and it lead me to believe that radionics has one hell of afuture, I need time to take in all I have seen and learnt. Cheryl Kemp,Hamish McKay and the BDFGAA staff are to be congratulated. 44 people from as far as the North of Western Australia attended.David C
