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KindHarvest posted a new post. 3 years ago
Considerations for improving soil healthSoil health is one of the hot topics in agriculture. I continue to receive an increasing number of questions and get involved in more conversations involving “soil health” and “regenerative agriculture.”
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Stephen Henry posted an update 3 years ago
The PMOH Cycle https://lachefnet.wordpress.com/2022/07/13/the-pmoh-cycle/
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When you listen to journalists, sophists, and too many climate scientists, you’d think that cattle were the only source of atmospheric methane [CH4] and that their burps were solely to blame …
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Harriet Mella replied to the discussion Slugs and the role of nutrition, epescially iron in the forum Vegetables 3 years ago
Reply to Slugs and the role of nutrition, epescially iron
Deroceras are not funny. What I think that they do not like at all is the defense metabolites of the plant. They go for the new growth and varieties/weak plants that do not show a quick browning reaction where they are nibbled, which means that photosynthesis is not at peak to fuel phenolic defense. I have stopped those (I hope!!!) with…
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Harriet Mella replied to the discussion Slugs and the role of nutrition, epescially iron in the forum Vegetables 3 years ago
Reply to Slugs and the role of nutrition, epescially iron
From a precision point of view my approach to foliar feeding is a nightmare – it is more like cooking. I have some modules of KNF, then I use green-tea, the liquid of Baresa black olives (has a lot of iron gluconate in it), sometimes Mg-citrate, molasses, herbal teas depending on what I want to achieve.
Here Boron, Iron and Mg are often a…
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Brian Dougherty replied to the discussion Sunn Hemp in the forum Cover Crops 3 years ago
Those pictures and my limited experience with sunn hemp are from a university research farm. An early season insecticide was still used (an issue with reductionist research that I won’t get into here). Nodulation seemed decent, but this was the first year so I don’t really have any comparison to say it was good or bad. Insect activity in…
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