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» shadowkings - Re: Feed the Soil!
In response to Feed the Soil! posted by Bob_Ewing:I have read thuroughly on the relationship between health and diet, though admittedly I know little about its effect on mood, but i digress. Healthy soil is an obvious need, and soil is no better anywhere than in nature, or at least naturally amended supersoil. I step in the forest and there seems to be a solid soft black carpet (barring briars), yet little "life" except that dominated by the trees above. Soil so beautiful wasted to all but trees. Feilds grow shorter (table) crops like beans and potatoes, and corn each year, yet the ground is dry and worsens every year. Recently, I've just finished ploughmans folly and can see now I've had the wrong approach, but how can one truely retain soil health? Are we to grow in the midst of trees ignoring the problem of poor light by proper crop selection. Or plant in feilds ignoring the grounds need for shelter from the sun? Might the proper compromise be a combination of the two, a plant with large groundcover that looses its foliage in the fall and shades the earth in the spring/summer yet so efficient as to not deprive other plants the benifit of large roots?
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