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June 18, 1998 - Bill Cooper
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Conference '98 – Jay Renolds, Gardening #2
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You are so incredibly good, you could have won a season before!
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm William Cooper.
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We now continue with part two of Jay Reynolds and gardening.
Part two.
I've not seen none before.
That could really help out.
I have plans to build one, but I just haven't.
Yes?
It's been a good year, but I wonder if this is a good idea.
You know the cheap environment you're in right now, Sam?
Oh yeah?
Whether you call it native or not, at the end of the season, sometimes they run the cheap route.
And I believe they're running a ton of them.
Rainy day.
Bye-bye.
Yeah!
Okay, my goodness.
One other thing.
Before, while we were on break, Bob mentioned he didn't really understand how he started the sweet potato.
You actually break off that vine, plant it maybe two inches deep at the least.
Although this spring, my sweet potatoes, we had an early Spring, they hadn't rined as long as they usually do.
They hadn't sprouted as long as they usually do.
Our plants, some of them were probably only half an inch long.
Just little bitty nymphs and they all grew.
So, you do have to do that.
One other thing you can do, if you have a long enough season, you can plant your first set of sprouts.
They can grow up for a ways.
And then you can break off that tip and plant it again.
Y'all live in the tropics?
I've seen, when I farmed in the tropics, in the Virgin Islands, I've seen a fella plant one row, he had a big field, he planted one row of sweet potatoes, and every two weeks, he would plant another one off of that one row, and every two weeks, and so every two weeks, when he harvested, he'd go to the market, and fresh stuff every two weeks, all the time.
So, they reproduce very easy.
It's just a constant thing.
That's why I grew anywhere along that stem.
Anywhere.
Although, you leave the tip, the growing tip above ground.
You leave the a-bitch in the rocker arm there.
Oh no, you leave the tip, the growing tip, above ground.
Yeah.
Never...
Never...
You can take that...
You can...
You can take that and...
You know...
Put water...
And it'll grow out spikes for you too.
Pretty easy.
The next subject is vitamins.
We can't store these vitamins in our body.
You can store some minerals in your body, but you can't store vitamin A and C. You have them all the time.
It's very important that we have a source of that.
You might wonder, how do you get it as a wearable?
You have to keep them fresh, or can them, or preserve them.
And I have a whole section I'm going to speak on, on food preservation.
But what I've got here is a nice chart.
It came from my grandfather's book, and it gives you The amount of vitamin A and C in these crops.
They've got other vitamins.
They've got minerals in them too.
But they categorize.
They tell you a general idea of how many of each type to plant.
I figure the more the better.
Once you have excess, you can.
And once you can, you can sell.
Or trade.
Over on the right, there's I have another section of the chart that shows you, in general, how many and how much to plant per person for fresh use and for processing, which is preserving.
These figures, I don't know.
It depends on how productive your soil is.
If it's more productive, you might be able to get by with less.
If it's less productive, you might have to double it.
I can't say for sure.
When you look at the abbreviation, you'll see like about the fourth, fifth one down, cantaloupes.
It says three to five hills.
What that means, commonly cantaloupes are planted not in a long row, but in individual hills.
You can plant them in a long row if you want to.
It's just a customary thing.
I'm not sure that Then it's really necessary to go to the hills.
I've done it both ways.
When you see plants, they mean pre-started transplants.
P-L-T-S stands for pre-started plants.
Like in broccoli.
You don't have to pre-start the plants.
Depends on your climate.
You can plant seeds right down the road, but then you should later thin them out.
And I've got another page on that coming up.
How to space plants, how often to have a plant when you plant them.
But generally he's a pretty good guy.
I've never seen anything like this before, except in my grandfather's book, which is 40 years old.
These hills, you have to run on the top of the hill, right?
You could, yeah.
You can walk.
It depends on your spacing of the hill.
Um, if I was to make a hill, I would probably, a cantaloupe for instance, I would probably put three seeds in there.
And, or maybe more, but thin out later to about three.
It depends, though, if you're gonna... It's something you'll have to, uh, figure out yourself.
Unless you figure that out.
In general, a cantaloupe, you probably plant about three seeds.
You get down to pumpkin, you might only do two, because pumpkins put out so big a leaf, and they grow so vigorous, probably they need a little more room than cantaloupes do.
But if you look on here, For instance, I think they have a pumpkin on here, don't they?
No, I don't see pumpkins on here, but one thing I... I'm sure they have pumpkins.
I've got a watermelon.
Do you like those?
I do.
As far as watermelon goes, I like the small ones.
I've got a smaller family, more people, and especially if you don't have refrigeration, It's a small one.
It's more convenient.
You can eat it all in one city.
A 200-pound watermelon.
What's four people going to do with that?
I was going to mention, they don't mention pumpkin on here, but they do mention winter squash.
I was almost sure there was pumpkin on, but I missed that, so I transcribed it by hand.
I was surprised that winter squash has much more nutrition than pumpkin.
You would think it would be the same thing, but it's not.
Winter squash is a little different family, and they're really good.
Just running down, look at the first section, vitamins A and C. Their vegetables are pretty high in both.
Does everybody know what mustard is?
It's a green.
There's different kinds of mustard.
The one that is the best is not as peppery and hot.
It's called tangerine.
And that thing, you won't believe it.
In 30 days, you're going to have a drop of that.
And it's great.
You can follow something up and it'll fall after you finish other crops and have that green.
And it's very high as you see.
Collards?
Everybody know what collards are?
Does anybody know what collards are?
Well, a collard is a cauliflower that didn't go to school.
It's a coarse member of the cabbage family.
It makes leaves that you can pick the side leaves and You will continue to grow.
You can keep picking it.
It's a very frost tolerant.
Collards will probably stand 20 degrees frost or more.
Even for days at a time.
They survive.
I had collards all winter this year in my garden.
And we got down to 8, 5 to 8 degrees.
They survived.
Just over.
You think mustard greens are kind of hot?
Yeah, especially in a hot time of the year, hot time of the year.
In the fall, they're a little better.
But there's different kinds of mustard.
And let me tell you, the tender green mustard is the one that you want to grow.
The others will be much hotter.
I'm going to make some more of them, yeah, for the food.
Mustard greens?
I don't mind.
Hot and bitter?
Yeah.
Maybe not.
Well, they're not hot.
How do I describe it?
Well, it's spicy.
It's turn-flavored.
Just remember, whenever they crash into your...
Just remember, if you have any questions you want to feature, if you want to, feel free to let me know.
It's the same plant all winter.
Um, they'll, as you pick off the leaves, they get taller.
They'll get about this tall and have a thing of leaves on top.
And if you look on here, you've heard Michael talk about broccoli a lot.
Look at the vitamins.
Which one has more?
Now, broccoli does have some other things that collard's doesn't have.
And I think it probably is higher in some cancer-preventing vitamins or whatever it happens to be.
There's a real simple rule to follow as far as vitamins in fresh leafy green plants.
I'm not necessarily agreeing, but the darker the green the leaf is, the more vitamins,
especially vitamin A, in the food, or the yellower the leaf or the vegetable is, the
more vitamin content it has.
The more vitamin A the leaf has, the more vitamin A the vegetable has, the more vitamin
A the vegetable has, the more vitamin A the vegetable has, the more vitamin A the vegetable
It took the whole family years to figure out why he was growing gourds.
After the planting dried, and the gourds were just laying on the ground, he drilled a little hole in the bottom, filled it up with whiskey, and put a little cork in there and set it on that water.
That was his stash.
So, the gourd got a lot of uses that you may not have thought of.
Well, going to the second group, number two, pine vitamin A. Look at those and tell me.
Everybody knows all those.
Maybe Swiss chard is a little strange for some of you.
It's a green also.
It grows from the seed.
But look at that carrot.
If there was one plant that I would recommend everybody learn to grow, it's carrots.
Because you can see by far the toxin vitamin A. And take a guess on, I want to hear three guesses on how much per acre The good practice you can grow up here.
How much do you think?
Let me have a guess.
How many pounds or tons per acre?
Y'all right off the bat, it's from 10 to 20 tons per acre.
That is just incredible.
runoff is from 10 to 20 tons per acre.
That is just incredible.
And in a home situation, you might even get more, because you can squeeze things in a little better,
and you don't have to use mechanical lot harvest.
So carrots, and carrots eat good too.
I eat carrots in the ground all year long in my planet.
If you wanted to, you could probably cover them off in the north.
I think Ron mentioned that.
They cover theirs up.
And they keep all winter.
So what's the storage?
There's no storage problems.
The only problem with carrots is clientee.
And it's a little hard to come up.
You need to make sure they stay moist.
And have a soft soil to be able to push through.
And you really can't beat carrots.
They taste good too.
They taste a little different.
Depending on your soil, They may be a little stronger.
They'll have a more carrot flavor than much of the commercial ones.
Of course, those have been sitting around for weeks or months, too.
How many of you live in Southern California?
Did you find out where they're harvesting carrots in the Imperial Valley?
You know where that's at, right?
That's Centro, out in there.
And you go out there and you're actually pulling them out of the ground and loading them up in the trucks?
And any of those dirt roads, or even the major highway, you just drive along and you can
pick up bushels and bushels and bushels of carrots that have dropped off the trucks because
they just mount.
They get so many carrots that they don't care.
And they lose them.
They mount them in the trucks until they're falling off, and they fall off for miles.
And I'm serious.
When I went over to Southern California, I used to drive over there and fill up little baskets full of carrots and things like that.
Sometimes that came definitely huge.
Temperatures slowed down, and now they're in California, in California for a long time.
Sure.
Now, there's one crop here that is not listed.
I couldn't get any good information on it, but it's something you might consider, and that's sugar beets.
It's kind of a strange idea, huh?
But once in a while you'd probably like to have some sugar for a holiday or something, maybe?
You can actually grow your own sugar in sugar beets.
And they're a good cattle feed, too.
They grow huge.
Five, six pounds long.
Oh yeah.
So they're good bait for hunting.
That's good.
So they're good bait for hunting.
That's good.
We're going to group number three, which are high in vitamin C. Most people know about
It's the most common crop grown.
They're pretty easy to grow.
One thing you might, I might mention though, there's two different, in general, there's two varieties of tomatoes.
One is a determinate and one is indeterminate variety.
The determinate varieties grow to a certain height and then they stop.
They generally bear a shorter time because they only grow so tall.
The indeterminate will continue to grow and grow and grow and grow until they get sick or it gets frost, which in my area, that's the end of the tomatoes.
But they have different uses.
For instance, if you wanted to can, you might grow a determinate tomato because they all come at once.
Get your cannon out of the way.
But for fresh eating, you might want to go in and determine that tomato because if you have them longer, they just continue along the way all the time.
Tomatoes are probably one of the easiest vegetables to can if you're going to be canning them.
They don't require as much cooking.
They're fairly safe.
They're pretty good, Dan, too.
They're pretty good if you don't have anything else.
They're pretty good.
The other green vegetables next.
Some people don't know that beans come in either bush form or hole form.
That is that some grow only two feet high and bare.
Some grow in a hole.
They can grow up.
They can grow way on up.
The bush beans are sort of like the determinate tomatoes.
They grow fast.
You might only get one or two or three pickings at the most off of them, and then they're finished.
The pole beans grow taller.
They continue to bear less at one time, but for a longer time.
So, they have different purposes.
And there's different advantages.
If you can't fend over and pick them, The pole beans are nicer.
A lot of people might not want to do that.
Green beans.
What?
Just ignore it.
Okay.
Ronald Mitchell, that's the job he hates the most.
He's picking green bush beans.
I don't mind it, because I like to get them out of the way.
Get them finished.
And the apples being grown faster.
They'll bear faster.
So if you've got a cold climate where you have a short season, that might be a good idea.
Y'all in California, you've got a whole different situation.
Just about.
There may be a few limitations.
How about Olga? Yeah?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah?
Have you ever had a fried okra?
No, I haven't.
You know what I used to do?
I used to grow it up in my parents' navy in the kitchen, and then we'd throw it on the floor right in the kitchen.
I used to throw all my okra behind the refrigerator.
And when we moved, I'd have a big pile of beans underneath the okra.
But, but notice, compare beans and okra on this chart.
That's something to think about.
They're higher than green beans.
They're higher than green beans.
So, that's something to think about, though.
I like okra.
And in the South, it's not only traditional, but it tends to grow in the hottest weather, when a lot of other things might just wilt away and die.
Yeah.
He says it grows in poor soil.
That's true.
It will really grow.
Now, if you grow okra, wear long sleeves and lots of pickets, unless you're really tough skinned, because it's a prickly plant.
Okay.
Have you ever eaten cannibal's vegetable soup?
Anybody ever eaten cannibal's vegetable soup?
You already know?
You didn't know it, did you?
That adds something to a soup.
When you cook a soup or something, we're in a survival situation.
Soup is easy to cook.
You can put all kinds of things in it.
And soup is a mainstay for subsistence living.
It really is.
Because you can make it so many different ways, add so many different things to it.
And whole group makes your soup much better, believe me.
If you ever have kept soup, you read milk, but you didn't know it.
They grind it up a little bit, but you read it.
Is starchy vegetable group 5?
Any questions on that?
I'll put a question on the chart in a minute.
Okay.
It talks about getting good feet on the, I guess, correction rolls, or, you know, for, for instance, on an initiation program.
Yeah.
Good spacing on when it's... I'll, I'll come to that next.
I'll start passing around now.
Any other questions?
I think you're a Mormon.
You're a Mormon.
Is God a Mormon?
No.
Is God a Mormon?
No.
Any different religions?
No.
Any different religions?
No.
You don't need a sweet moment.
You need a sweet moment.
A real moment.
You need a sweet moment.
Okay, the question was, how do you make cornmeal?
Just a minute here.
Cornmeal is either plant or dense corn, and you grind it, but not completely.
Milling or grinding is Can be done fine or coarse.
And usually your cornmeal is just not quite as fine as flour.
You can buy cornflour, and that's what they make tortillas with.
But a cornmeal, like a cornbread, that's just not quite as fine a grind.
I use my Vitamix, and sometimes it's hard to control.
It's not a real grinding machine, even though it will grind almost anything.
That's all it is.
It's just ground up.
I didn't mention popcorn, but it's good.
It keeps.
It grows.
And everybody knows how to make popcorn.
The problem is, where are you going to get that oil?
Butter or something.
Oil is a problem.
That's one of the things that I haven't been able to perfect a good idea of how to make myself.
I never pursued it.
You could get it from soybeans, you could get it from corn, peanuts, sunflowers, but it takes quite a bit.
Can you do that in California?
Yeah?
Those people are going to have it made.
Prabhupāda, I don't know that it could be wrong everywhere, though.
I bet it does.
Oh We'll be out.
Oh, Karen, what was your question?
Well, I don't know.
What I will tell you is that I was surprised.
I like turnips.
I grow turnips.
My family doesn't like to eat the greens, but I do.
Um, turnips, I believe, when I started looking it up, turnips were not all that high.
I was surprised.
They're not all that high in vitamins.
But, I still grow them because they are very tough for winter use.
And, uh, when I was outside, I had a little story to tell about turnips.
Um, where I live in Izzard County, Arkansas.
Northern Arkansas.
Down in the southern part of the county, down in my village or town area, there's a little town called Guyon.
And Guyon, Arkansas, has a mysterious person that nobody knows who it is.
And his nickname is Johnny Turnipseed.
And along the fall, all of a sudden, people will find turnips coming up in their flower
beds.
And where somebody's pulled those to clear the field out for grazing, all of a sudden,
an acre of turnips will just come up, and there's somebody walking around with turnip
sticks and casting them around.
And they're one thing that I know for sure that can come up almost on their own.
Now, Diana tried it.
It didn't work, but... I don't... I don't know.
It did.
I... I... I tried it when I knew it was too great, but I wasn't sure if I made it.
I... I'll use it in my journey.
So, and you guys, the Radishes... Radishes, I think they thought that book could have gone on this list.
Now, I didn't make this up.
I got it out of a book.
But, um, Radishes are... They...
They're pretty good.
There's different kinds of radishes, too.
Recently, it's become more available is the oriental radishes.
These things grow this big.
I figure out they're called daikon is one name for it.
And they're supposed to be pretty good.
I've probably never eaten them.
I've eaten all the radishes.
And they're good.
They're great.
Right, Karen?
30 days or less for little ones.
If you like radishes, I would say go home, son.
Where are you from, bro?
Well, um... I don't think so.
Um... I've grown them in the tropics.
I am.
I've grown them in Texas.
And... One type of lettuce that is probably the hardest to grow is iceberg lettuce.
Believe it or not.
It doesn't... Lettuce...
It's a fast crop, but it's a crop that it tends to go to seed and bolt is the word for it.
It lengthens out, throws out that seed.
If you were to choose lettuce, a lettuce crop, find out what grows good in your area.
If I could make some suggestions, oak leaf is a type of lettuce that It's shaped like, it makes a leaf shape like an oak leaf.
It's not very big, but it's real tolerant to that bolting.
That's something I was going to select lettuce and look for something tolerant to bolting.
Don't say bolt tolerant or long pinging or something like that.
Lettuce is not that hard to grow, especially the leafless.
The easiest is a soft, buttery, leaf lettuce that doesn't make any head at all.
It just kind of spreads out.
But the way I grow, I'll go into how I grow lettuce a little bit.
Yes?
I just wanted to mention that when you're talking about the vitamin content and stuff,
that you're talking about some raw foods.
Anytime you cook food, you're going to lose a lot of this stuff.
A. I'll tell you, I cut that off this summer, because it wouldn't fit on the page, but at the bottom of this chart, they did mention that these vitamins were for raw vegetables.
Except those that are not normally eaten raw.
So when you look at soybeans, or potatoes, and probably sweet corn, I believe those flavors are for cooking.
So, and probably mustard, that'd probably be cooked for them.
And since, uh, I bet, since this was done 40 years ago, I bet that broccoli was eaten first.
Although, a lot of people eat raw broccoli now, too.
Carrots and coffee on a toast.
Yes?
You know, Jack's comment was that if you eat raw vegetables, you're getting the most out of it.
And that's a fact.
I mean, that destroys the anxiety. That's another reason why she helps us, like, helps us digest us.
You know, Jack's comment was that if you eat raw vegetables, you're getting the most out of it.
That's a fact. There's no doubt in that.
So, heck, it's even easier. You don't have to go light that campfire.
Other questions?
Okay, well, that next page that I passed out, the first one that talks about the difference between farming and gardening, that's a little chart I made up showing you Different spacings for an intensive form of farming, which is gardening, and the standard farming method, which would allow you to even buy the tractor in most of these cases, between the rows.
Since on a survival basis, you might not have that equipment, and after all, who wants to You might not have the land to grow in a large-scale style.
And in some cases, the intensive growing is even becoming more used by farmers.
When I show you these figures for gardening, what I'm talking about is planting by the square foot, and this heart can't come up.
It's called Square Foot Gardening.
It's pretty popular.
And the basic idea for doing that is to use the soil to its fullest extent for backyard gardening or for intensive gardening is what they call it.
And I'll tell you what, I'm going to go ahead, along with that one, I'm going to pass out.
Or did I?
Did I pass?
Well, we'll go into that now.
In your garden, you really need to first start off and get a soil test.
Even if you're not going to farm it now or do anything, at least plant the place that you're going to garden and get a soil test.
That's the first step.
Touch it and let you know what you're doing as far as the soil goes.
And in the soil you've got different nutrients.
The major ones.
N, P, K. Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium.
And I've gotten this written down so that it tells you just basically what it does for the plant and how to know if you've already started a plant, if it's deficient.
Nitrogen is mostly used for photosynthesis.
What that photosynthesis is, is how the plant takes sunlight and produces energy.
It's a solar energy factory.
It's in those leaves.
And don't try to grow a garden in the shade.
It won't grow.
I've seen a lot of people that plant it in the shade.
The more sun, the better.
It's really true.
Even a hundred percent sun all day long.
In the tropics, the people will say, well, it's going to be too hot.
It can't be too hot.
You can get the water to your planet.
It can't be too hot or too much sun.
It really can't.
So, the most sun, the most solar.
Some people would grow up indoors, leave the light on all the time, night and day.
Sometimes that's not good for him.
That's kind of special, but I was looking at the package of seeds that Jack has in a can, and I noticed they had sweet Spanish onions.
And here's an example of sunlight.
You know that the sun, length of day is shorter up north, for instance, and the far north of the day is only, there's much less out than further south.
When you get to the equator, Day and April is almost the same as the night year-round.
Some plants are key to that leap of sunlight.
For instance, onions is a real good example.
There are two types of onions generally, short day and long day.
And wherever you live, you'll need to find out, and I tell you, I can't remember which way it is right now, but northern people We'll need a, they'll need a short day, that's it.
They'll need a short day onion.
If you rush a long day onion up north, you might never get onions.
Because that plant is key to the fall when it knows its season is done.
It folds out and stores up food.
If you plant a short day onion in a sow, you can get a scope of onion about this big, running in June probably, and that's all.
So, you want to get the right variety for the right amount of sunlight.
The other one I think I'm sensitive to, that's corn.
I think that's one reason why they grow different corn stalks to sow.
If you betray cellulose, it's something most people don't know about, and that's something only a soil test will be able to tell you.
And so, you can go out and buy fertilizer, and does anybody know how you rate your fertilizer?
You ever heard of 10, 15, 5, or something like that?
That is N, first number, P, second number, K, the potassium, the third number.
And that stands for, if you have 100 pounds of that fertilizer, you won't have... Say you're using 13, 13, 13, which is real popular for some reason.
But say you're using that, 100 pounds of that fertilizer has 13 pounds of each other in it.
That's how we get those numbers.
Now, myself, I use both natural And commercial fertilizer.
This year I used no fertilizer at all on my garden.
One part of it.
The other part, I used commercial fertilizer.
I have one plot which is five years filled in with soil.
Like I said, it's halfway to chocolate cane.
And it's coasting this year.
Because I've built it over the years, it's just able to coast.
The only crop I added anything to was spinach because it's a heavy, heavy feeder.
So I added a little bit of that 13-13.
I have another plot which I've just started two years and it's very sandy.
Sandy soils are hard to build up fertility.
It washes out the fertility of sandy soil.
So I'm using 13-13 this year, but I've got a I've got about two done truckloads of compost that I've made to put on this winter.
So next year I'll probably, every year I'll use less.
But you should put something on every year unless you're really sure of what slope you have.
In survival situations I could be able to go out to the feed store or garden shop and buy this fertilizer.
So if you look on here, your nitrogen, The best source is either manure or compost.
And I'll give you the compost at the bottom here.
But manure is good for almost anything.
If you add manure to your soil in large enough amounts, you won't have a problem.
Potassium is also known as potash.
That's another way to look at it.
And wood ashes work real good.
They don't last very long.
You will have to put it on year by year.
But in a survival situation, most of us are going to have some wood burning involved there.
So we'll have that.
And if nothing else, burn some wood for a campfire.
Uh huh?
Would those wood ashes tend to make light if you put them in a water pump?
No.
No, you can't mainline with ash, but spread on the soil, no.
Let's see, what is lye?
What's the point of that?
If you're worried about being lye in your soil, no.
Until we have that commercial fertilizer, manure and wood ashes are used in every garden in every field in this country that produces wonderful crops and vegetables for a couple of hundred years.
No, it doesn't happen.
Yeah, I haven't had that happen, but you can make lime, and if you wanted to make soap, you better save your wood ashes and keep them dry, because soap is going to be something you would need.
And you'll need some sources of oil or fat to make that soap, but you need wood ashes to make wine.
Is animal manure better than human?
Human manure is equal to hawk manure.
And as far as the manure soap, I'll give it to you from strongest to weakest.
Just remember one thing.
All manure is good for fertilizer.
There are some that are stronger than others.
But if you use human manure, you run the risk of spreading disease.
They use human manure almost exclusively in Japan.
If you're buying vegetables that came from Japan and you don't properly treat those vegetables, you stand a good chance of getting some kind of a human transmitted disease.
And they don't eat much salad.
So, when it comes to potassium, no, phosphorus, you notice, remember yesterday Miles was talking about the buffalo bones?
Well, that is a source of phosphorus, his bones, and it doesn't take as much as you might think.
It's slowly released generally.
Plants don't need a whole lot of it, but they need it steadily.
And if you just grind up some bones, that'll work.
Steel mill slag, most of us don't have a steel mill, but you got them in California, you got them in the Northeast, or Midwest, and the slag from that is perfectly good fertilizer.
Well, I don't know.
I guess it would depend on what kind of steel, what was in there.
That's a good question I can't answer.
It would probably depend on where it came from and what impurities were there.
Well, maybe.
I didn't realize that.
The book, I've never used it, but the books that I consulted, I was looking for.
Waste sources for a fertilizer or things that you can get that may be available without a commercial sale.
And that was one that they recommended.
You have to be careful about that, especially if it's recommended by the government.
I also recommend uranium, pay limits for uranium riots, and radioactive waste from nuclear
processing plants, and things that still have low-level radiation output over hundreds of
years.
And they used to tell you that low-level radiation exposure didn't hurt you.
Now we know that it's one of the most deadliest forms of radiation that there is, and it's
the most likely to cause cancer.
Thanks for your feedback.
I also know that that's one way of killing people as well.
They're putting uranium-filling mines ever since they started uranium mining in the sky, you know, at the back of fields.
And of course, that radioactivity is picked up in small amounts, and you're smoking.
And your lungs get that radioactivity in, and you die.
But if you're a smoker, that's something to think about.
Well, I did research very deep into that study, and that's probably a good study to check on.
I didn't mention granite dust.
Where would you get granite dust?
Any idea?
That's a good one.
people have carved gravestones out of granite, or if they mine granite in their areas, that's
a no-brainer.
But I haven't been able to pick it up yet, but my local gravestone engraver says I can
come and get it by the big tub's full.
All along the roads in California, it's all decomposed granite there.
They've ran it up every year, ran it down, and the big trucks come on and all that.
Yeah.
All over the place.
Oh, so it's decomposing off a road cut?
Yeah.
There's another substitute that you can use that you can't find in granite dust, which
they do have commercially available, by the way.
You can buy it at the bank.
I don't have the address and supplier number off in the mail, but you can.
You see the volcanic ash around here?
Yeah.
And you take that and crush it.
It's very easy to crush.
We've got basically the same thing with granite dust.
We'll produce tremendous vegetables.
Bob can probably tell you that places in Hawaii where Japanese people came in and bought areas
of cinder way up, covered with cinder that nobody else would use.
They went in there with a big bulldozer to crush the cinder and plant it across.
They're getting record-sized vegetables just from raising it in the crushed cinder.
I just want to say that it's a good thing that you're doing this.
I mean, it's a good thing that you're doing this.
It's a good thing that you're doing this.
So all that ash from there swept the San Joaquin Valley.
That was such a rich, rich farming area.
One of the biggest problems with our food supply now is that we've over-farmed the land.
And this is not an exaggeration, and it's not some, some lack of environmental savings.
We have produced so many crops from the land, we've depleted the mineral supply to the land
so that now we're eating vegetables that should be packed full of all the minerals that we
need to trade on them, and they have very, very little.
And so that equates to us not having the required minerals in our bodies.
So everybody should really be taking mineral supplements if you're eating vegetables to
survive and be safe.
Well, you know, in general, the soil is formed by different ways.
Some of your best soils are closer to the weathering process.
Closer to the weathering from rock.
And that's an example.
You're talking about granite dust would be weathered mechanically by a machine.
I live close to a rock crusher.
Where they crush rocks for roadbeds and so on.
And one part of the process is real fine stuff.
And I used a lot of that in making potting soil.
And it really seemed to help.
There's just stuff in there that is not washed out.
See, the next section is on wine.
And it's interesting that your western soils, which have less rainfall, Do not need lime.
They're alkaline.
Whereas your eastern soils with higher rainfalls are acid.
And the process from that is your atmosphere contains the carbon dioxide.
As your water droplets fall through, they become slightly acidic.
This acid rain is natural, believe it or not.
Some of it may be man-made, but it's natural, too, because all your caves are formed that way.
The reaction of carbonic acid and limestone will eat away a cave.
So it's something that's been going on forever.
But lime is important.
Calcium builds your strong bones.
You hear that?
And calcium is deficient in any acidic soil.
And to some extent it might be bound up even in alkaline soils.
One of the things that happens when you use compost.
Compost is slightly acidic.
With a substance called humic acid.
And that actually will help release the calcium to a usable form for your plants to be able to take it up.
That's one of the benefits of compost that most people really don't understand.
And calcium is real important.
It makes up the cell walls of a plant.
And it makes that plant strong.
A wheat crop without calcium, the wind can blow it down easy.
of course it could bend over easier and calcium you need that for your body and they say the
more calcium the better.
There is this naturalizing.
We are going to need a lot more than we know.
And actually if you don't take the supplements I don't think, I think you are always going
to need calcium.
The most you can get from what you eat and calcium is pretty easy to get to and again
it's ground rock, limestone, gypsum, different kinds of white chalky rocks, oyster shells
even.
Any source of lime.
And you can tell if you get a soil test, they'll tell you what kind of lime you need to put on if you need it.
Lime needs to be done ahead of time.
It releases over a slow period, a slow time.
Don't expect to get an effect if you plow your ground, put lime on it, plant You need to do that in the fall or a month ahead of time.
So that's something, even if you're not going to Garden for Survival now, you can get your soil started.
And I would suggest that everybody, if you plan to have any idea that you're going to do this or be able to do this, go ahead and get started now.
If nothing else, try that.
When you don't stand, you don't have anything to lose.
If you lose it, it doesn't work?
Well, you can still buy the wheat now.
Later on, you might not have that opportunity to plant wheat.
It might be critical.
There's a lot of other things you can plant now, which are generally called cover crops.
If you talk to your extension agent, they will call it a cover crop.
You can use clover.
What you're doing is, you're getting your soil ready to plant.
And they're proper broken up to what you need.
You're getting your fertility right.
And you're also, by using a cover crop, you're smothering out weeds, which can get in trouble later on.
A good idea for a cover crop is to come, if you're not going to be harvesting this stuff, would be a combination of things.
A legume, which is a member of the bean family.
We'll add nitrogen to your soil.
That's another source for nitrogen.
You remember Michael was talking the other day about combining crops together.
In nature, you seldom have one crop that grows by itself.
So, in a cover crop situation where it's not critical to be able to reap this wheat done with a machine, My neighbor did a real good cover crop last year of clover and wheat together.
But it depends on where you live.
You might have better luck in the South with black-eyed peas and buckwheat.
Or some combination is better than a single one for a cover crop.
You can also think about a dual purpose too.
Because some good cover crops also toward the end of the season make good grazing for animals.
You bet.
And then you're getting double, maybe even triple, because of what the animals leave behind.
And an animal can create content, a raw carbon material, and within hours turn it into fertilizer.
There's no factory that can hardly do that.
Just within hours.
I'm the cook here for you.
Yeah.
Have you heard of pH?
pH, not shampoo, things like that.
In general you can grow anything around that neutral point.
or first either acid or alkaline.
I've got a little chart here showing you which crops prefer which.
In general, you can grow anything around that neutral point.
However, and you have to make a compromise, most of the time.
In order to control the pH, in order to bring in more force alkaline, you add?
Anybody know?
Merge.
Line.
To bring more in the acid is a little harder.
Any ideas how you can make sulfur more acid?
Yeah.
Anything else?
Yeah.
Sulfur.
Sulfur will do it, because when that sulfur mixes with water, it will form a sulfuric acid.
You can also use vinegar.
Yeah.
I'm serious.
You can put vinegar in a spray bottle, and just spray, like, over vinegar over the soil, and it's just enough.
Now, it's easier to bring the soil towards alfalfa than it is to bring an alfalfa soil towards Well, that's it for today.
But if you had a terrible alkaline, an alkaline soil even, you're not better out here.
You might have to do something.
Compost is a good idea though.
Well, that's it for today, ladies and gentlemen.
And in case you didn't hear the announcement at the beginning of the broadcast, look at
the screen.
It looks like the war is going to start pretty soon right here on this mountaintop in the
Round Valley of Arizona.
And I'm going to be talking to you about the next step in the war.
Caught a United States Marshal trespassing on our property today.
We ran him off.
And of course, he and his buddies will be back.
And we will protect our rights with every means at our disposal.
And I mean every means.
If everybody had been willing to do that for many years past, we wouldn't be in the situation we're in today.
Good night, folks.
God bless each and every single one of you.
Thank you.
I've stumbled on sight of twelve misty mountains.
I've walked and I've crawled on six wicked highways.
I've stepped in the middle of seven sad forests.
I've been out in front of a dozen dead oceans.
I've been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard.
And it's hard.
It's hard.
It's hard.
Rain's gonna fall.
What did you hear, my blue-eyed girl?
Oh, what did you hear, my darling yellow?
I heard the sound of a thunder that roared out in the morning.
I heard the roar of a wave that reached around the whole world.
I heard 100 drummers whose hands were blazing.
I heard 10,000 lips and nobody listening.
I heard one person start, I heard a man keep laughing.
I heard the song of a woman who died in the gutter.
Her sound is a county drive in the alley.
And it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, Lady Mother of Carl.
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