Beltane Early Growth Moon
The soil temps have exceeded 50 so I’ve got to get out there with the carrots and chard, hoping the tomatoes and peppers come soon. They need to get in the ground. I’m going to look at soil improvement over the next few years. I’ve always done some amendments, composted manure goes on all my beds at the end of the growing season and I often lay it down as mulch once the temps get hot, then cover it with leaves, but I’ve not done any other fertilizing or soil supplementing, largely because I grow organic and I just don’t understand the organic soil supplement process.
Bill Schmidt hooked me up with some e-mails from an outfit in Farmington, International Ag Labs, and their stuff looks doable, though still somewhat complex for me. I’ll need to look into it further, but it seems to have a focus that makes sense to me. The basic thrust? Biosustainability created through soil improvement toward optimum soil health. When you see the thin layer that is our atmosphere, the post below with the astronaut video, and then when you consider that it is the top six inches or so of soil that make plant life possible, you begin to understand how tiny is our margin of safety.
We can take active steps that ensure a healthy atmosphere and a healthy topsoil, why wouldn’t we do that?