Saving the wrong seeds

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> This is why I'm against ploughing- That's wastern ploughing. It's one of

> the most unscientific activities along with western toilets.

> Balarams plough is a different tool and serves a much different purpose...

> What our bulls should be doing, or man power if you don't have any is to

> simply aerate the soil on the surface and create a seed bed from suitably

> weedseed free soil.

 

What is the difference between western ploughing and other kinds?

 

Balarams plough is a parabolic ripper (Abhiram Das) - that is breaking the

papri layer, or crusted earth that forms after the rains and the heat and

thus aerates the soil.

 

Like the western toilet. Western ploughing is actually unscinetific in real

terms.

 

They both look like they are great, but that's the illusion.

 

The original reason for ploughing Western style was to create arable land

from grassland. This is the very best purpose for it. Bas.

 

Why do you have to keep turning the soil over and over and over? There is no

real scientific answer to this. The conditioning is that your land has to

"look clean" - big illusion, it means it is more sterile and the sun rain

and wind can deplete it further. You are also in fact destroying the natural

soil structure and bringing up weed seeds that may have been dormant for up

to seven years. The mycellial tissue in the top soil is destroyed and has to

be reformed. The material buried by the ploughing takes away all the

moisture from the plants above [Faulkner]. The material buried is fresh not

in a decomposed state therefore the soil has to overwork to digest this and

try and feed a new crop at the same time. This causes soil depletion - So

called organic farms are subject to soil erosion in as much as 5 cms of top

soil being lost in forty years - due to bad management. You are burying the

top soil and bringing up subsoil - in many cases. You bury the humus which

is built up on the top where it should be so the natural root structures of

plants can't feed from it as they are designed to do.

Ploughing really doesn't make any sense.

And another reason why chemicals are so popular originated from the time of

Leibig, who in 1840 released the Leibig theory. - All that is needed is to

return to the earth is the nutrients that have been taken out by the

previous crop, and hey presto you have an agricultural system! You go to the

store and buy some NPK, or a bag of modern compost for your seedlings Who

needs anything else? Even today agro-chemical people say that soil has no

more use than making the plant stand up.

 

At the conference at the SCI I attended recently it was announced that earth

worms are destroyed by the use of heavy implements such as this.

 

If you study earthworms you will see that they come up to the surface and

take down material that is beginning to decompose or they take fresh

material only down a little way - not as deep as ploughing takes it. This is

extreemely scientific. The material will decompose in the top three inches

of soil. (Secrets of the Soil, Thompson)

 

I beleive that's also why they figure the need for GM crops - because

they've screwed up so much from natural farming that they cannot see a way

out of weed problems. I've seen many farmers around here just leave all the

worst weeds to grow five feet high and then seed and then die and then

plough them in and use chemical sprays to do away with them next season.

Our local temple here are also doing this without the chemical sprays. So

they keep on appearing more and more. But life members have suggested the

use of chemical poisons to try to control them. (no further comment).

 

Now you may ask what is one to do with these weeds. Well I am not here much

these days and these questions have been answered thoroughly many times

before. Please see previous entries in this conference.