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Off to the boat
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:12:03 -0400, hk wrote:
Richard Casady wrote:
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:06:34 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:55:28 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:20:19 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
I'd rather have frontal electro shock therapy than rake leaves!! I
pick mine up with my lawn tractor's grass catcher.
My family has always, for many decades, just left the grass where it
fell. It has never been necessary to add fertilizer, as we don't bag
up the potassium and phosphorus and haul them away. Collecting
clippings is dumb. I have never understood why anyone awould want to
do it.
At Casa Del Looneybin, I alternate mulching the grass and collecting
it.
While I don't garden at all, my neighbors do and I let them have the
clippings for their compost piles.
I no longer farm commercially, but it was a truism that you have to
replace everything you take away. Potassium and phosphorus have to be
replaced, while nitrogen is fixed by the clover and nitric acid,
generated by lightning, falls in the rain. Ammonium nitrate is good
stuff if you want a green lawn, a high corn yield, or lots of blasted
into small pieces iron ore.
Casady
A lot of the serious farmers hereabouts plant soybeans to replenish the
soil, I've been told.
This gives you some nitrogen, Does nothing for phosphorus or
potassium.
Casady
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