Winter 2021 vitamins

[izentrop]

It is perhaps thanks to the tile which supports it,

... which perhaps plays its role of thermal buffer! (besides protecting against underground sneak attacks by mole rats!)

For the thermal pad, perhaps, she was also well exposed to the sun and protected from the wind. Others without tiles are very colorful too. My father did like that with the squash. This year I only did it for this one.
"My" voles are very small and do not attack squash, no mole rat in my house so far. On the other hand, field mice or rabbits have already tried their teeth on it, but they preferred my red beets and my string bean stalks, localized damage, I was able to harvest beets in another place.

[Julienmos]

I go back to this old discussion concerning the OM of the soil, the humus or humic substances

Now, the definition of humic substances, their chemical nature, their classification and especially the thorny question of "synthetic routes" is currently quite shaken up and called into question. Already, for twenty years, glomalins have blurred the tracks. I tried, at the time of writing the 2nd book, to see clearly and got ... bogged down (so much the documents that I found contradicted each other, in particular because no precise definition of "humic substances "," stable humic substances "," glomalins "did not make consensus, so I gave up)

What I just wrote does not take this into account:

a) there is still a lot of controversy in all this and I have not taken the time to delve into the subject sufficiently; so I do not decide at this stage

b) above all, I am not at all certain that from a global point of view, and in practice, this changes the terms of the balance sheet; Obviously, some materials "end" by giving more humic substances than others (even if the path by which this passes is dark and therefore subject to questioning) ... Wherever one makes contributions of vegetable matter fibrous, the color of the soil becomes darker, the soil content of "stable humic substances" increases little by little, over the long term; the agronomic qualities of the soil improve. Everywhere where no more is added, the rates drop slowly, the structure deteriorates, the soil needs more crutches (fertilizer, work) to maintain its fertility ... If a "genius" questioned that, I think I won't believe it. I would allow myself to think that like Lysenko or Benvéniste (he is the "scientist" who demonstrated the memory of water - scientifically "justifying" homeopathy), he has too big an ego and needs to be talked about. of him (even if it means denying the obvious) ...

[Note that it is always very difficult, if not impossible, in the short term, to decide between a "brilliant new idea" and a "deception"; the fact that the same result can be obtained by the same protocol by anyone is not always easy to verify; another way of presuming correctness is that the idea ends up being imposed and verified by applications; E = mc² was shocking and not easy to verify; at the latest after Hiroshima, it became difficult to doubt; but long before, the "coherence" with the rest of the knowledge was essential; Einstein was not taken long for a pie despite his looks!]

c) on the other hand, I have a (arduous) article in English (finally American) where a team questions the NATURE of humic substances and defends the hypothesis that the current classification (well old, the one I gave) would only be artifacts of the extraction methods used. Otherwise fulvic, humic, humic acid would not exist in reality. There would be a kind of "continuum" of stable organic matter, in the soil, of different natures. And when you extract them with different solvents, they precipitate in one form or the other ... And that, I want to believe it. It even seems quite logical to me! But that does not change the situation in practice ...

A bit as if a mechanic was telling a Martian who had just landed: there are cars, they have 4 wheels, there are 3 wheels. And then there are motorcycles, they have two wheels ... And a finer observer of road traffic would say to him: but no, there are also scooters which have 3 wheels and some trucks or tractors also have 4 wheels but this is not the same. And between a Smart and a big "dressed" motorcycle, the difference is no longer so clear ... The second would be right. But that would not fundamentally change the traffic on our roads and in our cities ...

I am always very, very late in my vegetable garden (onions not harvested!). And in the editing of videos. I'll see if I have time to update myself and dig into the subject.

But you are right: it is the good old approach (it is not strictly speaking a "theory", but a very global quantitative approach, in which one does not even distinguish the various humic substances).

in a recent video, A Sélosse also seems to have "evolved" on the subject ...
speaking of humin, humic and fulvic acid he says that they are laboratory artefacts and that no one today thinks these substances exist in soils anymore.
And explain what is actually considered to be stable OM (or stable humus).
the passage lasts about 4 minutes in this video (from 3.02.30 to 3.06.40)

[Did67]

Yes, that must be the same source, that American article - which I quickly read but still not seriously translated.

Like me, he regrets having still "rambled" on the old stories we were taught. Even if, in my second book, I express a little my doubt and my perplexity in front of these stories of "classification", or in front of the question of knowing what the "clay-humic complex" is.

It will also force me to formulate more precisely how anecics feed. I still tend to say that they "feed" on blades of grass (although, indeed, I often say, when I have time, that it is the bacteria which digest it and that, like cows, worms digest bacteria, so we agree).

Its development on the holes is interesting.

[Biobomb]

Italian variety that resists extreme cold. There, 2 heads waiting to suffer from the frost which will remove their bitterness.

[Biobomb]

Autumn is here and everyone has taken advantage of the almost permanent humidity.

[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

[Doris]

Autumn is here and everyone has taken advantage of the almost permanent humidity.

Here too now, but I still had to water until the end of October. Yesterday's harvest of sweet potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, the last Tarbais beans and certainly the last new potatoes. The first shots of frost are lurking, I still have healthy potato plants, but I don't think they have tuberized enough. This gives me six months of almost permanent potato harvest, not having good storage conditions, it was one of my goals for the year.

[Biobomb]

I think this is the last sight of my tomatoes for this season. Tof taken this afternoon, Belle de Lorraine or Prévia variety. I will renew it for 2022 as I have been doing for a very long time now, it is a sure bet.

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[GuyGadeboisTheBack]

2 hours in the forest:

[izentrop]

What are white lamellar mushrooms?