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<pre>Natural animal manures should have no effect on soil acidity.As a mulch
its effect will only be short term if you have a high level of microbial
activity as it will disappear in a matter of weeks if this is the case.If
the manure doesnt degrade quickly this may indicate low microbial
activity/or soil ph levels on the low side.Fish /seaweed preparations can
assist with activating soil microbes
Neville Burt
-----Original Message-----
From: John Bishop <johnb@compositeretail.co.nz>
To: 'OliveOil@onelist.com' <OliveOil@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, August 12, 1999 6:06 PM
Subject: RE: [OliveOil] Organic farming


>From: John Bishop <johnb@compositeretail.co.nz>
>
>I would suggest that you spread it around in a quite wide circle - you want
>to encourage the roots to spread. if you get humid weather then you
>definitely don't want it piled up too high. I'm not sure but if you are
>piling it in a concentrated way then you may be adding an acidity to the
>soil?? Anyone got any comments
>regards
>
>John Bishop
>-----Original Message-----
>From: rbe [SMTP:ham@rbe.net.au]
>Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 3:07 PM
>To: OliveOil@onelist.com
>Subject: [OliveOil] Organic farming
>
>From: "rbe" <ham@rbe.net.au>
>
>We planted few olive trees in South Australia with plans to practice
>organic farming. To this end we delivered cow manure to each of the trees
>as on the photo.
>
>Could somebody tell whether we can leave it piled up around the stem (see
>photo) or should we spread it in order to give them "a bit of air"? If we
>leave it as it is then it will serve as a mulch, perserving water which is
>very precious over here. It would also discourage weeds from growing bec
>ause of lack of light as well as save us a bit of work.
>
>Regards
>
>David
>
>Ps: Sorry, photo attachment was rejected as not being allowed through this
>service!
>
>
>
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