why or how do you explain re-using soil to cause diseases?
I have soil in my mix that is nearly a decade old.
maybe older, hard to tell, I haven't bought a bag of soil in yrs.
but I do reamend, as we all do.
Crop rotation is meant for different cash crops that deplete their soils differently than cannabis, also that's in dirt, not an amended mix.
Add humus and nutrients every third run, is what I do.
Wait but when you say soil In your mix you are saying there's just a little left from old batches? or this is the Main Base Soil you created decades ago and you have Only been amending with like EWC, Kelp, etc...?
The reason i say this is because Crop Rotation is Not something new from the new day of Monoculture Husbandry, this was something farmers practiced 500+ years ago, and Honestly i would bet Money even the Egyptians Knew of it, and actually even the Jewish Law--i believe--to leave the Land Barren on the 7th year...
Here is a direct excerpt from Thomas Tusser's "500 Points of Good Husbandry" written in 1557... "... 22. First barlie, then pease, then wheat, if ye please. 23. Two crops and away, must champion say. 24. Where barlie did growe, laie wheat to sowe. Yet better I thinke, sowe pease after drinke. And then, if ye please, sowe wheat after pease. 25. What champion knowes that custome showes. 26. First barlie er rie, then pease by and by. THen fallow for wheat, is husbandrie great." from October's Abstract.
Directly from Octobers husbandrie... "... 19. Otes, rie, or else barlie, and wheat that is gray, brings land out of comfort, and soone to decay: One after another, no comfort betweene, is crop upon crop, as will quickly be seene. 20. Still crop upon crop many fermers do take, and reape little profit for greediness sake. Though breadcorne & drinkcorn such croppers do star count peason or brank, as a comfort to land. 21. Good land that is severall, crops may have three, in champion countrie it may not so bee: Ton taketh his season, as commoners may, the tother with reason may otherwise say. 22. Some useth at first a good fallow to make, to sowe thereon barlie, the better to take. Next that to sowe pease, and of that to sowe wheat, then fallow again, or lie lay for thy neat. 23 First rie, and then barlie, the champion saies, or wheat before barlie be champion waies: But drinke before bread corne with Middlesex men, then lay on more compas, and fallow agen. 24. Where barlie ye sowe, after rie or else wheat, if land be unlustie, the crop is not great, So lose ye your cost, to your coresie and smart, and land (overburdened) is cleane out of hart."
Man i love learning! Alright so i'll need a 100pg Essay on the Real Meaning behind what Tusser is saying. Due Friday before class, thanks guys have a great week.!
But seriously i have another book written in 1840 called "Southern Farmer and Market Gardener" and they talk about Crop Rotation or Crop Upon Crop as Tusser calls it, i'll do some reading and post those Words too.
But you see there is Definitely a meaning and reason behind allowing the Ground to fallow... And remember they Are Manuring the land, he is saying even After manuring Crop Upon Crop is dangerous and will diminish your yields and cause plants to become sickly.
And you are definitely right Indoors helps prevents the Spread of Disease, but haha also as have heard thank GOD it hasnt happened to me, it can also be a Breeding Ground For a disease! And then you have to Clean House to get rid of it.
I'm just trying to bring this to our attention especially with the No-Till Organics that is exploding across the board right now, i mean Everyone is doing it now Even commercial farmers, but this could come back to haunt us if we do Not Fallow the ground...
i'm just making an assumption here, but usually disease and sickly life are due to depleting the soil of all of its nutrients from growing the same crop over and over in the same location and not replenishing the soil with more than what the plants used up. i feel like i've read this in a few gardening books but i don't know if that's truth or not, but i know that a healthy plant with everything it needs is more able to fight pest and disease. also if you're an indoor grower, i think a lot of the outdoor born diseases are generally kept away, though i know air can carry a lot of things.
Oh yeah after the 1850s Science Really started entering the Unknowns and playing with some Dangerous Chemicals... SO i would take Any Publication written after i'd say 1850 with a HUGE Grain of Salt. THOUGH ALL Of Tesla's Publications are Brilliant and should be read and Recreated IF You dare!!!! FUCK EDISON!