catscratch
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What's your next idea? What "completely different cover" are you looking at?
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Regenerative Plotting
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MarkDarvin
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This spot is gonna be a minnow pond/water hole dig on the edge of my existing plot. I mowed down all that brush between the dig site and the edge of my plot. It's full of stumps, ruts, and old holes from old uprooted trees. That brush is all getting buried with spoils from the dig. The cover will be:
Perennials: Alfalfa, hairy vetch, chicory, ladino, med red, mam red
Annuals and covers: 3/4 rye, 1/4 barley & oats, buckwheat, soybeans, sunflower, flax
In spring, I'm likely going to overseed with flax again when the ground is still frozen, and then follow up with jap millet as soon as it warms up a little.
catscratch
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Diverse mix. I like it!
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MarkDarvin
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The primaries will be rye, chicory, alfalfa, and hairy vetch. I've got lots of clover already, the only reason I'm putting a small amount in here is in case the primary blend doesn't work.
MarkDarvin
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Been working on trying to understand the formation of humus in the soil, beyond dead roots and residues. I'm after the black goo that has been completely digested and becomes all-season total fertility.
I keep getting pulled back to the soil food web. I like following the cause and effect of things, and I keep asking "why?" Why is that there? Why is this suddenly happening? Why did this go away? This is a neat concept in that it connects a lot of dots in the unseen world, but it still doesn't connect the microbial world to the geologic world.
I came across some info on lithobionts. These are the first organisms that live and feed directly on rocks. There is almost zero study of them and how they help build the fertility bridge between rocks and plants.
https://www.ecofarmingdaily.com/build-soil/humus/humus-how-is-it-formed/
Another idea I came across was the changing bacteria to fungus ratio in soil. As it changes, what grows there will also change if left unaltered. Kind of neat.
So I ordered a new book. This one keeps popping up in my amazon suggestions, so I finally took a look at it. Should get here saturday.
I keep getting pulled back to the soil food web. I like following the cause and effect of things, and I keep asking "why?" Why is that there? Why is this suddenly happening? Why did this go away? This is a neat concept in that it connects a lot of dots in the unseen world, but it still doesn't connect the microbial world to the geologic world.
I came across some info on lithobionts. These are the first organisms that live and feed directly on rocks. There is almost zero study of them and how they help build the fertility bridge between rocks and plants.
https://www.ecofarmingdaily.com/build-soil/humus/humus-how-is-it-formed/
Another idea I came across was the changing bacteria to fungus ratio in soil. As it changes, what grows there will also change if left unaltered. Kind of neat.
So I ordered a new book. This one keeps popping up in my amazon suggestions, so I finally took a look at it. Should get here saturday. 
Mennoniteman
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He knows I'm right. Trust me.
MarkDarvin
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Some of my greatest learnings were discovered while on the porcelain reading chair.
Another idea I came across was the changing bacteria to fungus ratio in soil. As it changes, what grows there will also change if left unaltered. Kind of neat. View attachment 19214 So I ordered a new book. This one keeps popping up in my amazon suggestions, so I finally took a look at it. Should get here saturday.
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Mine as well along with companion books "Teaming with nutrients/fungi"
Let us know your thoughts
bill
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Mine as well along with companion books "Teaming with nutrients/fungi"
Let us know your thoughts
bill
MarkDarvin
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Mine as well along with companion books "Teaming with nutrients/fungi"
Let us know your thoughts
bill[/QUOTE]
They're supposedly a three book series and microbes is the first one, according to one of the reviews.
Mennoniteman
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"He"? That's not what's on the profile page...
catscratch
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I'll be damned, it does say he is a she. I never knew.
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MarkDarvin
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I'm about a third of the way through that book. It is worth it. I wouldn't recommend it as a starter book, but if you have a grasp on the fundamentals, this one is a great deeper dive. I'm going through the fungal chapter right now, and a really neat item jumped out at me:
*Soils with a higher fungal to bacteria ratio show higher rates of carbon (OM) accumulation and retention. So far I can't quite comprehend why, but the association has been studied and documented.
*Soils with a higher fungal to bacteria ratio show higher rates of carbon (OM) accumulation and retention. So far I can't quite comprehend why, but the association has been studied and documented.
MarkDarvin
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