There is an area in Mississippi that I went to try to figure why
nothing would grow on several farms.I pulled soil samples and ran
tests.I ran tests looking for anything that might be a problemwith the
limitations imposed by what tests I could run.After a day tromping
around the fields around Indianola.I spent the evening setting up a lab
in my motel room.I could not readilly get thesoil to 'suspend in water
to stat and ended up having to dry it and pound it with a hammer with
the soil in a few layers of filter paper.By that time I had broken out
in an aggrivated rash and spent 2 days in a bathtub watching the
filtration modes aonl getting out long enough to change operations.While
I was in the field other fields around the ones I was testing ,heavy
equipment were constructing catfish farms on the same barran
ground.Nothing would grow not even weeds.
Six months later I learned that Dept.of Defence and Dept.of Agriculture
had given Agent Orange to State of Miss.Ag. as a pretty good defoliant
and cotton being defoliated before harvest they gave it to the farmers
as their defoliant the year before they found out that it was a soil
sterilizer.There is a big catfish farming industry in that area.
I eat pretty well and am pretty choosy(no pun) but I just have to have
fried catfish about once or twice a year.But I go to a place in NC that
can tell me where from and what they are fried in.
Sorry I digress,cotton is a heavy hit on the soil and unless rotated
with peanuts and or soy beans they will depleat the soil and the
defoliants probably have an effect on this matter too.Remember cotton is
fit for cloth and enamel paint and is not 'grown' to fry chips or can
oysters in---lol;-)Holland
Land that has been used to grow cotton will not support some trees.
Garnet
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 22:20, Wayne Fugitt wrote:
All I know is that for the past 18 years, every damn tree that I plant
dies from borers attacking it.
That is a long time for bad luck, ...... a long streak.
It must not be luck. There must be a scientific answer. Did you seek our
the local experts?
Knowing when to cry for help is the greatest art to this life. In my
area, I have tree surgeons, vegetable scientists, biologist, crop
consultants, chemistry professors, physics professors, horticulturist, and
people who have managed large pecan farms for many years. I call on these
people often when I need answers.
Usually, one of my friends knows the answer to any of my problems. One
must strive to develop technically advanced friends in all fields of endeavor.
I have no idea what kind of borers you have but, para di chloro benzene
will control and eliminate some of them.
I understand that you might be opposed to used toxic chemicals to solve
your problem. However, if you have experienced failures for 18 years, it
is time to change your methods.
I have pecan trees 40 feet tall I grew from seeds planted in 1980. These
trees have made pecan crops for 4 or 5 years.
I have failed to grow only one crop, sugar cane. I purchased the seed
cane, buried it properly thru the winter, and planted it properly in the
spring. I achieved less than 10 % of a decent stand of cane.
I never figured out the problem, and never tried to grow it
again. Possibly the seed stock got too wed during the winter or maybe too
cold. It could have frozen.
One has to accept defeat at least once in their lifetime.
I read the long list of questions. I would be interested in some of the
species you tried to establish,
and.... latitude and longitude, or a GPS reading of your area.
You got a lot of good suggestions from Holland and others.
Does your soil grow grass and weeds. If you don't have a strong
background in growing, you would not understand some of the things that the
soil, weeds, and wild plants tell us.
Some naturally occurring plants suggest poor soil while others suggest good
fertile soil.
There is always a chance that some quantity of toxic spill happened there
in the past.
Often so much lime leaches our of concrete that it kills plants. It sounds
like a mystery unless we get a task force together for an on site survey.
Wayne
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