ah man was just going to say this that's why they people in Europe had to rotate corn crops. Just a little history lesson bet you didn't know that the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain is due to the introduction of the Potato to the diet in Europe. When people grow corn it takes alot of nutrients out of the soils and such which is why they rotate (we all know this, just clarifying). Once the potato was introduced they were now able to plant in all their fields without problems of rotating thus they could produce more food. Once they started producing more food their population BOOMEd I don't know the statistics off hand but there is a huge coorelation between the introduction of the Potato and the population boom. anyways now that they don't have a scarce food and are able to maintain bigger populations and essentially have time to do other things than just farm food... the Industrial Revolution was born..
Sorry that was my morning rant to go with my coffee and blunt.
Happy growings..
Oh BTW Teas ROCK! I used to make em just for my MJ now they get jealous because all my plants and garden get them
Just curious what does everyone do with the sludge in the bottome of your teas? I just throw mine in the compost...
Appropriate that your name in RIU is SirLancelot,a fictitious knight of the fictitious Round Table.History lesson is a joke!
I am from England and have never heard of the potato being responsible for our Industrial Revolution.I was taught that it was coz of new machines being invented,exploitation of low paid workers being exploited by unscrupulous factory owners,etc,etc.Definitely not the humble spud.
Was the 1st and 2nd World Wars down to the potato then.coz there were more ppl to fight them?
I worked on a farm in the 1960`s when i was a lad,and crops were still rotated,you make out that we stopped rotating after the spud was introduced.
Not true.If all fields were used for planting,as you state,where would the animals graze?Youve not put much thought into your post,your just guessing.
If you are taught that in the USA,it is totally wrong.
I will concede that the introduction of the potato changed the staple diet in Britain from bread to spud,and allowed the population to expand coz if the wheat crop failed the spud was there as a back up.Ireland depended solely on the tattie,and when their crops failed in the mid 1800`s coz of blight,millions died and millions emigrated to the USA.Only for thousands of them to die fighting in your Civil War.
Saying that the potato was solely responsible for our I.R. is folly,as there were many other reasons,it was a time of change and invention,and you cant please all of the ppl all of the time.It had to happen,and still goes on to this day.Are all industrial disputes down to the potato?
If the inventor of anything eats potato,is that invention down to the tatty?Coz thats what you are saying.
Stick to growing weed pal,coz you know sweet FA about history.
dam rights man. one of the things people don't understand about Organics is the amount of nutrients marijuana can uptake. The salts in Synthetic fertilizers (Such as potassium Sulfide and Sodium Nitrate, both common ingredient for synthesizing hydro nutes.......) cause such harm to the soil and plants in larger doses that its almost inhumane
some of the things i see people putting into their reservoirs is just sad....
Been learning so much on the site since I joined have almost completely changed my whole grow. Props to all the true organics growers maybe one day I too will be able to teach the class but for now I will be sitting in the front row diligently taking notes.