bajachris
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The Great Dust Bowl, San Quintin
Has anyone else noticed that parts of the farming area around San Quintin vacinity are looking like the Great Dust Bowl? Several years ago I took
some organic gardening classes and they said NOT to till the soil or your will kill organisms in the soil and create a sterile soil. I never till my
soil and just keep putting compost and straw on top and I have the richest most productive soil ever.
[Edited on 12-13-2014 by bajachris]
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bajachris
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Not clburros, classes. Damn fast fingers
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Bob53
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Never heard of NOT tilling the soil. I've been organic gardening for 20 years and till the soil every spring.
The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.
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bajachris
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Classes
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monoloco
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No till gardening:
http://www.organicgardening.com/learn-and-grow/no-till-garde...
"The future ain't what it used to be"
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wilderone
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c l a s s e s a s s automatically turns into burro
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shari
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Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
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I wonder if some of Los Pinos fields are not in use anymore as they moved much of their growing to Vizcaino the last few years...rumour has it that
the irrigation water was getting more brackish there.
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TMW
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Los Pinos has a lot of stuff under tents. I think they have come up with ways to use less water. Tents tents everywhere.
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AKgringo
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I remember in the late 80's seeing tracts of dessert being cleared and wells allowing crops to replace the native vegetation. By the late 90's, many
of those wells had failed, leaving dust and invasive weeds with little chance the land will return to a natural state in our lifetimes!
California is facing a similar problem, there is only so much you can pump from wells without causing harm somewhere else.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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