Re: [compost_tea] Re: Kudzu
Now if we put tomatoes in hoop houses in the winter, when would we ever plant kale? (grin)
3/2/2005 11:45:23 AM, soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 14:45:23 -0500 (EST)
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> From: soilfoodweb_at_aol.com
> Subject:Re: [compost_tea] Re: Kudzu
> To: compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com
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> Harry McCormick gets the same kinds of results, using leaf litter and
> clover compost. He picks tomatoes from June to December in Oregon. He
> protects the tomatoes from wind in plastic covered hoop houses, but the
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> houses stand about 20 feet high, because the tomatoes reach 12 to 14 feet
> high.
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> If you want Harry's e-mail to talk to him yourself, just e-mail me and I can
> send you to him. Alternatively, read some of Eliot Coleman's books, where
> he gets similar results.
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> Part of the "secret" is using a nitrogen-fixing plant in the compost mix.
> Kudzu is a nitrogen-fixer, which is why the USDA brought it into the US from
> south-east Asia. They just neglected to pay attention to its ability to
> produce rhizomes, and the fact that it grows so fast, it smothers other
> plants out. Otherwise, it would be a great N-fixing cover crop.
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> Elaine
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> ---What is Charles Wilbur's growing season?
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> In compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Jeff Lowenfels <jeff@g...> wrote:
> > L900 HOW TO GROW WORLD RECORD TOMATOES
> > by Charles H Wilbur
> > When Charles Wilbur goes to pick tomatoes he has to climb a ladder
> to
> > reach scaffolding that often has another ladder on it! Wilbur set
> 3
> > Guinness world records with his mega-producing, all-organically
> grown
> > produce. He was on the cover in 1987 for his 4 tomato plants that
> > yielded 1,368 pounds of tomatoes. His record still stands for the
> > tallest tomato plant grown-a 28 foot, 7-inch cherry tomato. He
> also
> > made it for a 17 foot, 6 inch okra plant. What's the secret to
> this
> > fantastic growth? A big factor is his kudzu compost formula
> consisting
> > of kudzu (northerners can substitute alfalfa or soybeans), hay,
> manure,
> > soil, ashes, and colloidal clay.
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> Elaine R. Ingham
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> Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
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> Soil Foodweb Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
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> Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
> Soil Foodweb Inc., South Africa
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