Re: Why we should be careful (was Re: [compost_tea] tea for pasture
I've asked myself this question several times, in side
by side test should it be fertlizer-ACT-nothing.
--- David Anderson <squtch_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I suspect that a fair amount of the
> change is due to
> moving away from the chemicals. I am experiencing
> that myself in the
> house I have lived in for just over a year. The guy
> who lived here
> before us was gone most of the time for the 6 months
> before we bought
> the place, so he pretty much stopped adding his
> chemical fertilizers.
> The lawn was very patchy and mostly brown.
>
> The *only* lawn care that I have done is mowing it,
> and I prefer to
> use the clippings for my compost. The extra year
> away from the
> chemicals has brought grass back to the bald
> patches, and the whole
> thing is green. All I did was stop killing the
> biology, and there was
> a major improvement.
>
> I expect that similar things can happen to pasture
> as well.
>
> Dave
>
=====
Butch Ragland
Conflict is as addictive as
cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes,etc
I'm sorry to report that
cooperation is not
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