Re: Gauss readings of soil

2002-03-16 Thread Lloyd Charles
    Dear List members, Jose wrote If any soil would have a Gauss reading like the ones I have seen posted lately ( like 2,000 ; 3,500, etc...) we could sell those soils as magnets and probably make a fortune out of them. Unfortunately that is not possible. & etc Jose

Re: Frank Moody

2002-03-16 Thread Gil Robertson
Thanks Tom, I think New Mexico may be like our conditions. We get twenty inches - 500 mm, between April/ May and October. The rain just stops in our spring and our grain g crops die not ripen. I was in England in their Autumn and could not get over the headers on the paddock with green flag on the

Re: Planting Spuds - How do you do it?

2002-03-16 Thread Gil Robertson
Thanks Hugh, all points taken and agreed. There is of cause a great difference between a financially serviving crop and a smart arse unbelievable and possibly non repeatable one. I am very interested in your use of Corn as a soil builder. There was a feature on someone in Mexico, in the old Perma

Re: Planting Spuds - How do you do it?

2002-03-16 Thread Hugh Lovel
Dear Gil, Good stuff. But I'm not nursing potatoes on high compost stuff. I plant them direct in spading machine spaded soil and no fertilizer whatsoever. So they have to get off to a great start on their own. My experience is give them a good solid boost from the chunck of potato behind them an

Re: Gauss readings of soil

2002-03-16 Thread Hugh Lovel
Dear Jose, What I'm having trouble with Dr. Callahan is my soil, according to his meter, tests around 140 cgs. Yet it is so fertile it grows corn as a soil improvement crop without fertilizer. So I think something else is going on here besides paramagnetism and cgs readings. I respect AND like Phi

Re: Corn == Soil Improvement Crop

2002-03-16 Thread Hugh Lovel
>I envy those with the climate to grow un-irrigated corn. We are at the harvest >end of the corn season and have had 48 days straight with no rain and >about nine >points in 85 days. This is our dry season, but for a lot of important parts of >Oz it is their rainy season and many on this list are

Re: Compost for Brewers

2002-03-16 Thread SBruno75
She already did this for us on Long Island...sstorch

Re: Gauss readings of soil

2002-03-16 Thread Jose Luiz Moreira Garcia
Dear List members,   If any soil would have a Gauss reading like the ones I have seen posted lately ( like 2,000 ; 3,500, etc...) we could sell those soils as magnets and probably make a fortune out of them. Unfortunately that is not possible.   Soil Paramagnetism is measured in micro CGS and

Re: Re[2]: Compost for Brewers

2002-03-16 Thread SBruno75
What is being found out by looking at the biological assays of the bd remedies and the compost they make is that these things are the precursors for life in the soil. They contain all of the organisms to initiate the prosesses that will unlock all the nutrients and minerals in the soil through

Re: Frank Moody

2002-03-16 Thread Thomas Schley
Gil, many towns in the parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, New Brunswick and Quebec where I spent much of my youth are now without trees along the main streets. This is because many if not most were Dutch elm trees. Part of the problem may have been that too many elms where planted (for their

Re: Frank Moody

2002-03-16 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Deborah, There may well be specie specific energies. I do not know of any one having identified them as yet, but may well have. Something that I find really fascinating, is the mechanism that tells one plant that it is OK to grown in a particular place and time, while many others do not try.

Re: Watering the garden

2002-03-16 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Tony N-S You will upset my kiwi cousins referring to it as "my" South Island. I am in Port Lincoln, South Australia. They also get upset when we talk of the outer islands. I just looked up a map and found Llanmadoc, Llanlaiso, Llanrhidian and Lougho. Are you near any of them. When in the UK

Re: Corn == Soil Improvement Crop

2002-03-16 Thread Gil Robertson
I envy those with the climate to grow un-irrigated corn. We are at the harvest end of the corn season and have had 48 days straight with no rain and about nine points in 85 days. This is our dry season, but for a lot of important parts of Oz it is their rainy season and many on this list are very

Fw: "Return of the Snakes" Berkeley's First Annual Interfaith Pagan Pride Parade

2002-03-16 Thread jsherry
Berkeley's First Annual Interfaith Pagan Pride Parade, 'Return of the Snakes' We are pleased to invite you to the West Coasts first-ever Interfaith Pagan Pride Parade. This Pagan Interfaith parade will draw in spiritual and artistic groups from around the State to march in co-existence, peace, an

Re: Radioactivity

2002-03-16 Thread Deborah Byron
Tony--My knowledge of the periodic table and the elements is pretty dismal. Since some of the numbers I posted were for soil samples around a fast oxide nuclear reactor, I was assuming Ce = cesium. As always, one question leads to 10 others. Thanks, Deborah

Frank Moody

2002-03-16 Thread Deborah Byron
Gil--This picture of the tree's front door is very interesting. You probably have heard about Dutch Elm disease which is still wiping out so many magnificent old trees, in North America at least. I'm wondering whether radionics theory or Steiner's work, for that matter, indicate why certain spec

The old ways are best! (was ... Cesium Rod?)

2002-03-16 Thread Anthony Nelson-Smith
Herb - I took my degree (Botany, Zoology, Chemistry) in 1959/60 and enjoyed the primitive wet methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis; I also remember simple wet-chemistry methods for determining nutrient deficiencies in a leaf (can't remember after whom these leaf tests were named - can

Re: Watering the garden

2002-03-16 Thread Anthony Nelson-Smith
Gil - nothing so grand as 'farming', I just have 2-3 acres of roughish land, a little of which I use to grow veg for household use, a little more as relatively tame garden, the rest as wet paddock or wettish spinney. It's on the north side of the Gower peninsula in SW Wales, west of Swansea or op

Re: Radioactivity

2002-03-16 Thread Anthony Nelson-Smith
Deborah - Sorry, I was just using the subject line of the original message: not an expert on caesium, but surely Ce would be cerium ? Confusion or mis-type - 137 could be an isotope of either ?Tony N-S.

Re: Help Please

2002-03-16 Thread Bonnie York
On Friday, March 15, 2002, at 06:08 AM, Bonnie York wrote: > Hello bdnow friends, > > What would be beneficial to plant under apple trees? I'm asking about beneficial grasses. Clover? Rye? Alfalfa? Wheat?

Spirit Moves this SPRING EQUINOX

2002-03-16 Thread jsherry
Donna Henes Presents: Spring Equinox . . . Spirit Moves Spirit Moves Spirit Moves Procession & 27th Annual Egg Stand Wednesday March 20, 2002 12:45 PMMeet at Federal Building (with the red cube sculpture) Broadway and Liberty Street 1:00 PM Processions leaves 1:30 PM Ga

Re: Testing for soil creatures

2002-03-16 Thread Allan Balliett
No, Bonnie, I'm just suggesting that we do not view the results as an absolute and that we do not think that when it comes to the physcical aspects of the prep that the numbers will be absolute. I'd like to keep this testing process as simple as possible with the goal this time being to actual

Corn == Soil Improvement Crop

2002-03-16 Thread Wayne and Sharon McEachern
Hugh Lovel wrote: > Here I've been growing corn as a soil improvement crop > without fertilizers and getting killer yields. I'm not sure everyone is in > a position to do this, but I've proved it possible. > Hugh, could you share with us what makes supports the corn crop (besides the FB) and h

Re: Watering the garden

2002-03-16 Thread Gil Robertson
Thank you for the feed back Tony. Where are you farming? Gil Anthony Nelson-Smith wrote: > Gil - Thanks for that. I'm sure that it is iron (clean spring from old > mine, little vegetable matter to provide tannin) but it certainly doesn't > seem to do any harm - it's a helluva job clearing unw

Re: Planting Spuds - How do you do it?

2002-03-16 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Hugh, Thank you for posting how to on spuds. This may be of interest to the list. Back in the 1940s or 1950s, a cousin of my mother's, Keith Gross, won the Australian record for amount of potatoes grown from one pound of seed potato. He was a mixed farmer from Clarendon, Adelaide, South Aus

Frank Moody

2002-03-16 Thread Gil Robertson
Deborah Byron wrote: Dear Gil Please tell us who Frank Moody is. Frank is an Australian and probably the only surviving man involved in the early development of Radar, during WW2. He admits to being 98, but may be older. He travels around the Eastern States of Oz and used to visit the Land of the