Fertilization
Merrill Jensen (Tue, 12 Apr 2005 07:54:52 PDT)

I don't' mean to throw a spanner in the works, but how is it possible to
ever have a healthy soil if a field has been sterilized? Once you wipe out
all of the beneficial micro-organisms, it always seems that it's the
pathogenic ones that come back first, making it necessary to get on the
chemical treadmill to have a saleable crop. As an old organic grower, I've
found that if you maintain a healthy soil, the incidence of disease is much
less or non-existent.

Merrill
Palo Alto, CA zone 9/10

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Subject: Re: [pbs] Fertilization

Ben Zonneveld, with great respect: other reasons that bulbs in the
Netherlands rapidly increase in size and number are the same elsewhere in
the world:

-- sometimes the growing fields are healthy soil
-- sometimes the growing fields are sterilized
-- sometimes plants are minutely observed and selected for traits such as
rapid production of offsets.

Paige Woodward
paige@hillkeep.ca
http://www.hillkeep.ca/

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