Date:   8/2/2008 7:27:43 PM ( 17 y ago)
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...Let your land lie fallow under weeds and grasses.

...Grow beside wild places (not so far for good critters to travel), at least 60 feet from any busy road...farther, if you can.

...Mulch with volcanic ash or volcanic rock where you won't cover seedlings. Volcanic debris, being glass, is really hard on crawling things with soft underbellies.

...Mulch with straw or similar things, also not covering seeds and seedlings.

...Create compost from the wild, and mulch with it. Bring in a few shovelfuls of wild soil and carefully place in central locations, immediately, and cover with the best mulch you have, also immediately.

...Do not till.

...Keep free from man-made pollutants.

...Buy seed with old-fashioned names...there is a law that prevents newly-engineered seeds from being labeled with old names...though they may sound like old names. Read old-fashioned catalogues and gardening books...the older the better.

...Do any necessary watering at dawn, the coldest time of the day. You are ready to conserve water evaporation with your good mulches.

...Where weeds and grasses will shade your seeds and seedlings, cut back your weeds and grasses enough to ensure sprouting and growth, leaving the cuttings for mulch.

...Plant trees, watching where the shade will fall, and where winds and weather need to be controlled. Plant food trees.

...Don't use purchased animal manures.

...Read Eliot Coleman http://www.fourseasonfarm.com and the Japanese man who wrote about no-till gardening, and how the Brazilian man, Mr. Nasser, restored ten hectares of spoiled land with clumps of local weeds and grasses...see the Discovery Channel...ask them.


That's the best I know, basically. Ask Jessesmom, too. I think you'll find that these suggestions are the cheapest around.


Now I'd like to tell you two things that may be helpful, as well.

The first begins with crystal mineral salts. These are the dried residue of oceans 250,000,000 years old. One place they are dug is in the Himalayas. They are pinkish. (I love a bath in a 1% solution.) I've heard of a rose-colored deposit from the Andes, and a deposit of seashells in the Canadian Rockies. There must be more.

These mineral salts are sterile and sterilizing, because of their mineral salts content. They are also concentrated because of ancient evaporation. These have been balanced by ancient ocean plants.


There are, too, deposits of old volcanic ash. One is in our town. Likely the micro organisms have been working on them all this time, and any water dripping from it would be loaded with plant-balanced mineral salts.


There are places where water leaks from under glaciers. Often this water is whitish and called 'glacier milk'. It, too, is loaded with minerals leeched from the rocks under the glacier. These haven't yet been balanced by plants. I have heard of bottles of 'glacier milk' being sold in stores...I don't know in what form.


I am told that water needs only to bubble over rocks for a few feet before it is purified. I imagine that would be true of ground water, too. I've also heard that the air beside waterfalls is the finest to breathe.

Artesian wells may carry enough pressure power to move it as you wish. Read up on "artesian wells."


I don't know how any of this can be applied to your garden...but I surely dream of how they might help mine.


The second thing I'd like to mention I learned from a gal who grew tomatoes and long English cucumbers in great greenhouses, a labor-intensive operation. She told me they talk and sing to their plants.

She also said that they let their son and his band practice in the greenhouses.

The plants loved the company, the sounds, and they produced extra well. These people felt they had proven this to be a fact, to their own satisfaction.

I took her story to mean that there is extra energy in sound, and perhaps the human's very presence.

So you could experiment, too.


Please ask me questions...that's how I learn. Maybe we can all boost our immune systems, and save everyone a lot of bother.

My best,

Fledgling
 

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