List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
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List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
Living free starts with understanding ones own emotions and emotion affects and controls us.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
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Ryan Hobbs wrote:
The Bacteria may have a relationship with the mychorizae fungi that we don't know about that results in greater nutrient uptake in plants that do not necessarily have a symbiotic relationship with the fungi.
I intend to explore this hypothesis in the future as a possible explanation as to why the radishes were larger despite no known mychorizal relationship with the Brassicaceae family. should I gain access to a microscope, I may discover that there is a relationship that was overlooked or not.
I am rather enjoying this series and look forward to reading the rest.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
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Angelika Maier wrote:Hi Briant I read all your threads, albeit a little bit later. But they are timeless!
I have some questions about the dirt part (for you it's maybe bygone area but I just begin to try to understand that part): I read Solomon's book and got that soil test and he says he recommends rather high levels of amendments. Now you are telling that the critters get fat and lazy doing so. Do you think Steve's target levels are too high? And if yes with what would you replace them?
Second: you don't explain much about the dirt part - I know it is not in your focus anymore, but I still would like to know a bit more at least some basics. CAn you recommend a good dirt read? Something for people who forgot about all their chemistry stuff from school?
When will you finnish your book? I will definitively buy it!
And I need some more maybe video explanation how to work the soil. (I hate videos) But my parents used to dig over winter (I don't do that) then to hoe thoroughly and rake to make a nice seed bed. I do roughly the same, but I do mulching. For the manual part videos are good.
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
This acid surface also keeps earthworms from feeding and allows the buildup of a dead grass thatch and a sod-bound root zone.
"Study books and observe nature; if they do not agree, throw away the books." ~ William A. Albrecht
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
"Study books and observe nature; if they do not agree, throw away the books." ~ William A. Albrecht
"Study books and observe nature; if they do not agree, throw away the books." ~ William A. Albrecht
List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
Bryant RedHawk wrote:Installment 2.
Soil Orders and General Descriptions
Type Description
Entisols Little, if any horizon development
Inceptisols Beginning of horizon development
Aridisols Soils located in arid climates
Mollisols Soft, grassland soils
Alfisols Deciduous forest soils
Spodosols Acidic, coniferous forest soils
Ultisols Extensively weathered soils
Oxisols Extremely weathered, tropical soils
Gelisols Soils containing permafrost
Histosols Soils formed in organic material
Andisols Soil formed in volcanic material
Vertisols Shrinking and swelling clay soils
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List of Bryant RedHawk's Epic Soil Series Threads We love visitors, that's why we live in a secluded cabin deep in the woods. "Buzzard's Roost (Asnikiye Heca) Farm." Promoting permaculture to save our planet.
Anne Miller wrote:This is by county so maybe this will help:
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/id/soils/?cid=nrcs144p2_047791
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Bryant RedHawk wrote:Your soil falls into the mollisol type in my list. The information you found is great, the geological survey has moved their classification method to the most recent methodology over the last 10 years. Now they list particle sizes and depths for each horizon. The Loess region of China consists of the same type(s) of soils, very fertile land when properly managed, highly erosive when not properly managed. The soil came from eroded basalt.
Jacket silt soil generally is found on slopes of up to 50% grades, plateues and in the USA is generally used for pasture land.
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Loretta Liefveld wrote:
Bryant RedHawk wrote:Your soil falls into the mollisol type in my list. The information you found is great, the geological survey has moved their classification method to the most recent methodology over the last 10 years. Now they list particle sizes and depths for each horizon. The Loess region of China consists of the same type(s) of soils, very fertile land when properly managed, highly erosive when not properly managed. The soil came from eroded basalt.
Jacket silt soil generally is found on slopes of up to 50% grades, plateues and in the USA is generally used for pasture land.
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Thanks, Brian. Yep.... basalt. Most of it doesn't seem very 'eroded' though. See my previous response.
We have two hayfields on our property, and I haven't tried to dig in that, just around the house.
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