Oops!

In all the excitement of the week last week with Andy's letter I totally forgot to post a picture and write about the growing methods that Andy wanted us to know about.

 

Growing Methods

Besides animal manure and cover crops they also use fish and seaweed products in the soil.  These products are loaded with micro nutrients and trace minerals.  Andy feels that these help the soil stay healthier with less disease and insect damage.  And in turn he hopes that it will keep all of us healthier too,.  The order their products from a company called 'Agri Energy Resources'.  They use high calcium lime or gypsum to address the calcium levels of the soil.  It is essential to having good quality and good taste in the fruits and vegetables.  And he gives a little tip to all of us city dwelling tomato farmers...if our tomatoes are rotting on the bottom it is most likely due to a calcium deficiency.

 

We all need to be growing healthy plants.  If our plants are healthy and we eat them, hopefully with other factors we will be able to stay healthy.  But as we all know, some things are just out of our hands.  Weather changes and other factors can cause stress in plants, just like in humans, resulting in the defense systems being less viable.  That's when we come in with what he call band aids...a line of organic products that they use to suppress insects and diseases until the plant is doing well again.