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<blockquote data-quote="Old McDonald" data-source="post: 3046796" data-attributes="member: 47276"><p>I thoroughly recommend perservering with Elliott. I also have extremely high regard for Turner. I think I have read everything he published in book form. The other books are worth reading too, although I consider Fertility Farming his best. Obviously I have not read all Turner's writings, especially that in magazines such as The Gardener and The Farmer. Other people involved in these magazines such as Lawrence Hills (probably my all-time hero of soil fertility - I have his originally identified Bocking 4 comfrey obtained more than 20 years ago from HDRA) and Sewelll-Cooper (I have a copy of his original gardening book somewhere - probably with my sister in the UK) were also people whose views should be taken into account by anyone seriosuly interested in soil fertility.</p><p></p><p>You will note that Turner could not produce as much compost as he felt he needed.</p><p></p><p>I am sure Turner would approve of you importing nutrients, after all he did say "every time you sent a vehicle into town it should return with sewage sludge, sawdust (these two were the main components of his compost heaps) wood shavings, vegetable waste from greengrocers, or even old hessian sacks," - another quote from my own writing. Sir Albert Howard's Indore compost also relied on importing nutrients from other people's land.</p><p></p><p>Neither of these mehtods is of course sustainable on a global scale, but since almost nobody is practising these systems, I think you should go along with it as long as you can.</p><p></p><p>I am inclined to go along with Elliott and use manures and compost only during the cropping phase. A personal opinion. I would never attempt to tell anyone how they should farm their own land. I make suggestions, perhaps even some times when they are not requested, but nobody should ever tell someone else that they must, or even should, do anything in particular with their own land.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old McDonald, post: 3046796, member: 47276"] I thoroughly recommend perservering with Elliott. I also have extremely high regard for Turner. I think I have read everything he published in book form. The other books are worth reading too, although I consider Fertility Farming his best. Obviously I have not read all Turner's writings, especially that in magazines such as The Gardener and The Farmer. Other people involved in these magazines such as Lawrence Hills (probably my all-time hero of soil fertility - I have his originally identified Bocking 4 comfrey obtained more than 20 years ago from HDRA) and Sewelll-Cooper (I have a copy of his original gardening book somewhere - probably with my sister in the UK) were also people whose views should be taken into account by anyone seriosuly interested in soil fertility. You will note that Turner could not produce as much compost as he felt he needed. I am sure Turner would approve of you importing nutrients, after all he did say "every time you sent a vehicle into town it should return with sewage sludge, sawdust (these two were the main components of his compost heaps) wood shavings, vegetable waste from greengrocers, or even old hessian sacks," - another quote from my own writing. Sir Albert Howard's Indore compost also relied on importing nutrients from other people's land. Neither of these mehtods is of course sustainable on a global scale, but since almost nobody is practising these systems, I think you should go along with it as long as you can. I am inclined to go along with Elliott and use manures and compost only during the cropping phase. A personal opinion. I would never attempt to tell anyone how they should farm their own land. I make suggestions, perhaps even some times when they are not requested, but nobody should ever tell someone else that they must, or even should, do anything in particular with their own land. [/QUOTE]
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