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@Padawan1972 going to PO today buddy
I amazed at how long the soil was good. I will be recharging my next one the same way. All I did was put old soil roots and all in tote. Then every fire I had I added ash. After about 6months of sitting I used it.
i do the same/similar with my soil
I'll certainly have plenty ash after the flood.. ..I'm really Wondering what will happen on the garden where all the aloe vera were..
the bodies will either rot or be ploughed in..so that soil will be full of silica...I Should get Wonder crops from it..
The new garden plan will have to take these things into account i guess, did the flood take soil away or deposit it if that makes sense ,, where did the flood water come from? do you need to worry about contaminants being brought in and deposited,,what are the other farmers doing? with there fields, they must have been through this before and know best way to recover.
nice wall art ,,
Most plants don't absorb everything in the soil, canna is a soil cleanser. So anything that could have leached will be in the buds. But you could also use that to your advantage. If legal plant hemp then chop it down burn it and then soil should be good.Well...it is one of those things that everybody has a different opinion on @hairyman
Some people are saying the land will be Poisoned for years...but I Think that is just gossip mongering for something to say..
There are no chemical plants or anything around us that could have been affected...so they say..well what about the farmers chemicals..yeah well..the farmers chemicals are all blue plastic tubs..that float..
then they say well what about the cess pits...most of the rural runs on cess pits....but at the end of the day..it is just fertiliser...
The flood water come down in such a Volume that any contaminate would be massively dilute..
and the water itself is rain water that washes down from the mountains...in reality..it willprobably be Good for the land..re-mineralise it.
The Nile flooding is what made the land fertile...I Think similar here...
It left a scummy deposit..but that is probably the good stuff.....and it smelt bad..but ask anyone who makes fert tea..when it has decomposed..it smells like shit..
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The farmer who uses our land has simply ploughed and re-seeded the alfalfa..
The farmer at the side of us lost all his artichokes...so he re did the field with broccoli..
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Until someone persuades me otherwise..I Think the land will be Fine.
It has persuaded me to consider a couple of raised beds though...for me Valuables...
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Well...it is one of those things that everybody has a different opinion on @hairyman
Some people are saying the land will be Poisoned for years...but I Think that is just gossip mongering for something to say..
There are no chemical plants or anything around us that could have been affected...so they say..well what about the farmers chemicals..yeah well..the farmers chemicals are all blue plastic tubs..that float..
then they say well what about the cess pits...most of the rural runs on cess pits....but at the end of the day..it is just fertiliser...
The flood water come down in such a Volume that any contaminate would be massively dilute..
and the water itself is rain water that washes down from the mountains...in reality..it willprobably be Good for the land..re-mineralise it.
The Nile flooding is what made the land fertile...I Think similar here...
It left a scummy deposit..but that is probably the good stuff.....and it smelt bad..but ask anyone who makes fert tea..when it has decomposed..it smells like shit..
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The farmer who uses our land has simply ploughed and re-seeded the alfalfa..
The farmer at the side of us lost all his artichokes...so he re did the field with broccoli..
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Until someone persuades me otherwise..I Think the land will be Fine.
It has persuaded me to consider a couple of raised beds though...for me Valuables...
Ah @LazyNhazy ..I Lost the girls that were on the garden..they were under 1.5 meters of water for a week.....I don't grow canna on the land...but gawd...I wonder if I could get away with planting a load and if I get caught I could say I was just decontaminating the soil with it.......worth a shot....