Biodynamic Gardening
Biodynamic Gardening?
Why do they use cow manure? I recall that they don’t use horse manure coz horses are too nervous. Or is it coz the feed is processed better through all the cows tummies? Therefore less weeds etc.
I would think availability is more of a factor than usability. Horses don’t have multi-tummies, instead they have an appendix as big as a bushel basket called a cecum to aide there digestion. Having used both in my gardens and compost I would say both have issues with undigested seeds. The nitrogen contents of common poo are Cow-0.5% Pig-0.8% Horse-1.2% and Chicken-6%. RScott
Biodynamic Gardening
How to Make Flowers Bloom using Biodynamic Farming
Isn’t it really nice to see your garden blooming with beautiful and lively flowers? As a gardener, you should know that you need to put a lot of investments just to attain that primrose appeal you have always longed for. Aside from your expenses for seedlings, you should also invest more money for fertilizers and ample amount of time and effort to maintain the cleanliness and the conduciveness of your garden. Not anymore. These days, techniques in biodynamic farming could help lower or eliminate costs in buying and applying fertilizers to plants.
If you aim to save on costs and time, but at the same time make your garden more blooming with countless flowers, you should consider investing in vermicultured worms. Did you know that doing so would help you not just cut expenses on chemical and synthetic fertilizers but also opt to spend more time guarding your flowering plants against pests? Earthworms have long been considered the gardens’ superstars. Together with several friendly fungi and non-harmful bacteria, expect that worms can be able to turn your garden into a primrose.
There are several reasons why earthworms are able to help keep flowers in your garden healthy even all year long. First, worms significantly help the entry of air and water into the soil. It is a common knowledge that earthworms dig burrows. When they do so, they are able to loosen soil, providing needed oxygen to plant roots. The burrows also bring more room where roots can spread.
Vermicultured worms break down various organic substances like leaves to become important nutrients that are essential to flowering plants’ overall health. Because of their crawling activities, earthworms help transport nutrients from the topsoil to the subsoil, about six inches deep. The organisms also help keep pH level in the soil just ideal for plant utilization. At the same time, the crawling organisms secrete slime-like substances that contain generous amounts of nitrogen, which in turn give plants their dark green color as well as stronger leaves and stems.
Unfortunately, the volume of earthworms naturally thriving in your flowering garden may not be enough to bring about immediate results. As a matter of fact, natural earthworms in the garden may extinct and dwindle because of too much supply of sunlight, lack of moisture and exposure to risks brought about by predators like birds and insects. That is why there is a need for you to invest in vermicultured worms, which can be bought and transferred easily into the soil in your garden. If you are really determined to make your flower bloom more and livelier, try out investing in such artificially cultured worms. You are assured that your garden would be healthier and more organic.
Many gardeners could attest to the usefulness and effectiveness of this biodynamic farming technique. There is no need to buy chemicals and fertilizers that could pose risks to human health and to the environment. Let earthworms take care of your farming. The creatures are naturally farming friendly.
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How to type Greek capital delta into ProgeCAD?
I am using ProgeCAD 2009 pro eng on Windows XP to make detailed garden layouts. In my handwritten notes, the Greek capital delta serves me well as a compact, unambiguous symbol for the instruction, “use biodynamic spacing,” but I am unable to type it into ProgeCAD. ASCII charts show the delta symbol as having the key-in Ctrl-backspace-number instead of Alt-number. It won’t work. For html pages, e.g. a web site, one can sometimes type &# preceding the ASCII number to get a special symbol. That doesn’t work for delta, either. The Greek alphabet has to be buried somewhere in Windows. I would like a way to get at that single letter. Is it possible to program a hot key combination? Could html programming for font be useful? I know zilch about hot keys and html and have no time to delve into a deep learning program, but would be grateful for a specific instruction that works.
Have you tried the Windows Character Map?
It is buried in Start | Programs | Accessories | System Tools | Character Map
In the Character Map you can select Group by: Unicode Subrange | Greek
then select capital delta, the click “Select” and “Copy” and you will have a copy of Δ on your clipboard. You should / may be able to then paste Δ into your ProgeCAD.
Alternatively just copy this Δ to your clipboard.
[I included Δ in this reply by using the Δ HTML entity. For a complete list of HTML entities see http://www.html-tags-guide.com/html-entities.html ]
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