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Tuesday, October 08, 2024
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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I heard it said that the microbiology in the soil needs constant food. Otherwise it has to go dormant or die. I previously did not understand this. I figured feeding the worms was sufficient. Feeding the worms is good but its only half the biology in the soil. There's a whole soil biology thst isnt decomposers. The other half is biology that takes sugars/ exudates from the roots. It grows from and is effectively completely dependent on those sugars, not the cellulose in organic matter. Long story short, I think the soil doesnt want to "rest". Rest, anthropomorphically, sounds good. But to the soil its more like death.
Sure, the soil CAN rest (degrade, really) and then be brought back to life with some effort (and innoculants, perhaps). But if an olympic athlete sits on the couch for a month, it will take at least a month to get back into shape. If the soil "rests" for a month, will it not take a month to get back into shape, also? If the grower wants top level performance, then why would they think it was good for the soil to sit on the couch, so to speak...?
I think top level results cant happen until the athlete is in top shape and the "sitting on the couch for a month" kind of rest isnt right kind of rest for an athelete to win a race, nor is it the kind of rest that wins a veggie competition?
Cover crop going in asap, I think.
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