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A cover crop is great for your orchard floor and preventing bare spots. With a standard rake and harvester, you can harvest through knee high grass no problem. The grass not only provides ground cover, but keep the “trash” in place as extra cover. Your biggest challenge will in the tree row where the blowers on the sweeper can’t blow the…

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Hey so what does everyone think about aragonite? I started using it instead of bulk lime this past spring.

We’ve got a pretty sandy soil, so rhizosheaths are easy to see – I’ve just noticed a lot of rhizosheaths with aragonite incorporated right into them.

Seems like it can’t be too negative for microbes if they’re making rhizosheaths out…

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Thank you all for your awesome contributions here!

Important question Brian, It has to do with the chelation bond strength. The chelation agents developed by living organisms like organic acids, amino acids etc, have a relatively weak chelation bond, and readily release the held nutrients. ‘Synthetic’ chelation agents such as EDTA, EDDI, or glyphosate have much stronger chelation bond…

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Olivier has referenced a French language book on weeds as indicators and their association with redox in the podcast interview. The book is linked in the show notes I believe. We considered translating it, but the information wasnt quite what we were looking for. Might be worth looking at it, though.