RE: [cg] home grown mulch

2002-11-06 Thread John Verin
The essential key to true food growing sustainability is to grow your own soil fertility in your garden. Importing fertility from elsewhere means you're depleting resources there. Thus, growing carbon-producing crops is vital, particularly those that provide food (wheat, rye, corn, sorghum, su

Re: [cg] home grown mulch

2002-10-30 Thread David Smead
Nicole, My $.02 worth. Rarely does any thing that grows in my garden leave it, except what I take home to eat, and even any waste from that gets returned keeps rats out of the waste food). Vegetation that's not part of edible stuff gets chopped in the garden and spread about on the surface. Of