Re: [compost_tea] desert climate, compost and water needs

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 08:49:56 EDT

It will take me a while to answer all the questions in the original e-mail.
Let me remind folks, it is better to ask each separate question in a separate
e-mail. OK?

Water holding capacity in soil is a subject related to aggregate structure.
Biology is what builds that structure.

Each organisms group has its role in building that structure. Without EACH
group present and functioning (that's the activity assay required to know
that), then structure is not built, improvement in water holding capacity is only
part of the potential whole.

I don't have time to go over the whole explanation here. As John pointed
out, getting one of the CDs will do the explanation for you. The new (weel, new
last year) Introductory CD goes over that concepts needed.

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
SFI Australia
SFI New York
SFI Europe
SFI New Zealand

"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well,
but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how things
turn out." -- Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic





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