Direct Application of Organic Materials to Soil for Fall Composting
Guidance explains layering shredded organics on soil in fall to start composting without active pile building. Limitations include 2 to 4 inch layers per tiller, multiple applications possible in warm moist soil, and timing with spring planting. Also describes hackberry nipple gall insects, their life cycle, impact on trees, and that control is often not recommended.
Masumoto Sees Ghosts in California Orchard
California peach farmer David Mas Masamoto invites readers into his Del Rey orchard, describing how farmworker ghosts haunt his work and his writing. His new book Letters to the Valley, due in September, joins a life of farming 80 acres of peaches and grapes and reflecting on memory, labor, and a disappearing agrarian way of life.
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