Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Thanks for the advice I will give it try. I have a small alloment myself I've sent a picture what do you think?

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From: r-ed o-nion <redonion_01@yahoo.com>
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Hi Jeff,
thanks for answering and for the story.. hope i will not join cousin Donny :)
But i did know that milk comes from cows other than tetra-pak boxes :) :)

Synergistic gardening: it's true, if the soil is spoiled/ruined (and that's true, as you noticed, because of human intervention), the first time you prepare the bed it's better to add some manure and seed mustard seeds (or some other plant) to recover the soil.
After that, there shouldn't be need for adding other stuff, because the environment should be balanced.
the straw should reduce weeds and also the water evaporation (very useful in hot summer).

Bye :)

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From: Jeff Strong <jeff_faithwalker@yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 5:30 PM
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I have been Organically Gardening for almost 35 years. Long before it became popular in the main stream.
Synergistic gardening: Sounds good. But it is not feasible everywhere. First and foremost in gardening is to know what kind of soil you are working with and that requires a little excavating. At least 3 feet in depth this allows you to see with your eyes what the soil structure is and also provides for testing to find out what is there you can't see. Now days there are few places where mankind has not acted stupidly in the treating of the earth and outward appearances are deceptive at best.

   A little story to demonstrate the point;
When I was a child my Grandfather had a dairy ranch and behind the milking barn was a cesspool. Now the cesspool was about 25 feet deep and the bottom was sloped. Across the top of the pool there was a thick scum which sported the most gorgeous array of grasses and flowers and butterflies and moths and small birds. It was a piece of Eden.
  Once a Grandpa and Grandma would host a family reunion and we would all gather and the kids would start a softball game. Now not all of the kids were country wise. Some grew up in the city and my Cousin Donny was one of those types. His mother almost had a heart attack when she learned that milk came from cows and not bottles at the store.
  So the game was on and my cousin Pam had just smacked the ball which flew high and then when it hit the ground bounced twice and landed neatly as you please on this tuft of rich deep green grass. Donny was making a Bee line for it and we all yelled for him to stop and he did. But he didn't understand and the ball was just 3 feet away and he was sure he could get it and so ignoring the warnings made his move and the look of victory lasted about 1.2 seconds before Donny disappeared from sight.

   Now sense the pool bottom is sloped and the consistency of the liquid pooh is like thin oatmeal Donny came up in a deeper part covered in pooh and plant life, and Uncle John  armed with the pole and hook expertly snagged the boy and hauled him ashore. Where he promptly slugged him in the stomach to make him vomit up what he had swallowed and this was followed my a good hosing with cold well water and several stages of Bathing and scrubbing by Grandmothers and aunts. One good thing about large families is there is no shortage of clothes. So Donny learned not to be wise in his own eyes and not to depend on his own understanding of what he was seeing and so it should be in Gardening.

I am not saying anything against Synergising I am just saying make sure it is applicable for the piece of ground available to you.....    

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Synergistic gardening
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Synergistic gardening is a system of organic gardening, developed by Emilia Hazelip. The system is strongly influenced bypermaculture, as well as the work of Masanobu Fukuoka and Marc Bonfils.[1] After establishing the garden, there is no further digging, ploughing or tilling, and no use of external inputs such as manures and other fertilizers, or pesticides. Soil health is maintained by the selection of plants, mulching, and recycling of plant residues.[2]

^ "The Synergistic Garden". Excerpt from Permaculture Magazine. Issue 19. Spring 1999. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
^ Emilia Hazelip's emails (x105) articulating her practises and positions. Dec. 2001 – Jan. 2003
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On Aug 10, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Rinda Frye <frinda@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> Haven't run into the term synergistic gardening--explain?
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> >> Thanks so much. Glad to join. I'm really interested in getting my health better and the
> >> best way to do this is to keep away from GMO's. Enough said. ha
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> >Can you plant and grow GMO's freely in your own garden? In Europe the regulations are pretty strict (well, depending on the single country).
> >Other than the GMO's, another big issue, imho, is the use of chemical fertilizers: they are used freely and heavily... and they mantain the idea of the soil needing them to grow plants.
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> >I'am experimenting synergistic gardening (correct translation?, developed by Emilia Hazelip) and i find terrific the idea of the soil not needing external addition.
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> >Is anybody experimenting this technique too (or similar)?
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