Re: [compost_tea] Re: Kudzu

From: butch ragland <wilddog_202_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 13:13:01 -0800 (PST)
Where is the N stored.
--- soilfoodweb_at_aol.com wrote:


> 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 houses stand
> about 20 feet high, because the tomatoes reach 12 to
> 14  feet high. 

>
> 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. 
>

> 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. 


> Elaine
>





>
> ---What is Charles Wilbur's growing season?
>
>
>
>
> In  compost_tea_at_yahoogroups.com, Jeff Lowenfels
> <jeff_at_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.
>
>
> Elaine R.  Ingham
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Port  Jefferson, New York
> Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
> Soil Foodweb  Institute Cambridge, New Zealand
> Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan,  Mexico
> Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho
> Soil Foodweb Inc., South  Africa
>
>


=====
Butch Ragland
Conflict is as addictive as
cocaine, alcohol, cigarettes,etc
I'm sorry to report that
cooperation is not


     
           
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