@eb60f5fc I thought you might like the ghostwriter part. 🙂
The thing with Matthew is, that in his TV series The Gourmet Farmer, he is depicted as this slightly clumsy but likeable Aussie bloke.
The book however is really detailed and obviously the result oft hard graft and extensive research into vast different fields of science.
I can recommend the audio book as his voice really brings everything alive. And his Australian accent is understandable (by my standards).
@eb60f5fc "Soil" by Matthew Evans. He is an Australian TV chef, farmer and restaurateur so my expectations were not high.
But he (or his ghost writer 😉 ) did a fantastic job bringing to life the science behind formation of soil and all life in and on it.
Members of the #RHS can listen to the audio book for free via the online library.
@cf593c09 Salsify is so delicious!
My favourite recipe https://feinschmeckergarten.de/index.php/2023/01/10/schwarzwurzeln-auf-pappardelle/
Unfortunately germination of my saved seed was pretty poor this year.
September was also the hottest on record here. Yesterday was the first day of possible frost in the long term mean. Not this year, I guess.
Our spring in #Zone7a was cold and dry and it felt a challenge. When I read about you and others in zones like 4b and harder, I feel humbled and try to enjoy the possibilities given to me better. Thanks! 🙂
Thanks @cf593c09 What I call the market garden was our solutions for "too little space for all the veg that occupies a bed for a long time".
So our friends provided the land on their small hold and I do most of the gardening in return.
This means, veg that doesn't need my constant attention is a few km away. The stuff with more need for tlc is close at the house.
We are very lucky to have these opportunities.
All the best for your season, too!
@867529b7 No one doubted the content of the article @1c785346 shared.
But worms cannot add a neutron, a proton and an electron to make carbon become nitrogen. Worms (with bacterial helpers) break down organic matter into carbon and(!) nitrogen.
Polish you French and revisit Marcel Bouché. From what I can find on the Internet, he never made this absurd claim.
You refuse to read peer-reviewed articles. Can you provide a link to one? Can you quote Bouché with article/book and page number on this C-->N?
@867529b7
"However, our results suggest that increased N availability is a dominant pathway by which earthworms stimulate plant growth. ...Our results are consistent with studies showing the potential of earthworms to increase N mineralization from crop residues and soil organic matter, depending on earthworm community and environmental conditions."
van Groenigen, J., Lubbers, I., Vos, H. et al. Earthworms increase plant production: a meta-analysis. Sci Rep 4, 6365 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06365
@867529b7
You do a lot of good with this account, but "earthworms turn carbon into nitrogen"?
That is called alchemy. Carbon and nitrogen are chemical elements.
Physicists can transform some elements into others (with high energy input or in fission reactors) and radioactive decay does it, too.
Earthworms don't.
Spreading untrue stuff, does not help to make a better world.
Worms are great, worms are important - but they don't do magic tricks.
@1c785346
That is a wonderful scheme @adfbf87b and cemeteries are perfect spaces for it. I read about similar programs in the UK.
Unfortunately, I hardly can imagine any space with a higher fence of red tape than a cementery. Building regulations in Germany are terrible, but cemeteries beat all. That's probably why similar initiative go for street verges and neglected public land.
I need to look into this.
I like, that your approach ticks so many boxes and works on different levels. It's to learn from!
@adfbf87b
Since I wouldn't keep a neutral face at the customs, they'd pick me out straight away. So smuggling is not really an option for me anyway.
🙂
There is an apple museum / collection not far from here. Possibly they know something. Though they didn't mention anything,about 10 years ago, when we bought the trees for our fruit garden...
@867529b7 No one doubted the content of the article @1c785346 shared.
But worms cannot add a neutron, a proton and an electron to make carbon become nitrogen. Worms (with bacterial helpers) break down organic matter into carbon and(!) nitrogen.
Polish you French and revisit Marcel Bouché. From what I can find on the Internet, he never made this absurd claim.
You refuse to read peer-reviewed articles. Can you provide a link to one? Can you quote Bouché with article/book and page number on this C-->N?
Thanks, @adfbf87b that is very helpful!
With a quick internet research, I was able to find four of the varieties from the article in German plant retail. Anna and Ein Shemer are not among them, but they apparently are from Israel. I'm not sure about all climate zones there (chill in elevated areas?), but they should do with few #ChillingHours.
Some of the varieties are available in British plant retail. After Brexit, this would mean, I'd have to smuggle them out of the country.
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