Re: Ruth Stout Books
Eliza Lindsay (eliza@q7.com)
Sun, 10 Jan 1999 15:17:14 -0800 (PST)
Well, I don't know where you live but I was able to find one of her books
in the local library. I found her style repetive and dull, to be honest
and though her mulch no-till is a fetching and winning concept I also
believe her book reads like many "garden guru" books: Do what I do it
WORKS. Where basically they have generalized from their positive
experiences in very specific situations and micro-climes and seem to
suggest it's as easy as pie to just replicate any old place. That really
isn't true as we all know. And, indeed, I'm in the process of figuring out
how I can better adapt no/low till "mulch" methods to my gardening
situation where (a) we are the slug capital of north america and relatedly
have very long slow as all get out to warm up very wet springs and (b)
where I've got too much garden to mulch as deeply as she and many other
no-till mulch types recommend but where I am also very low on the
mechanical end of things/very small scale and almost
entirely human-powered....
I've got some good sucess and some dismal mishaps so far. What I am up to
is probably far different from your methods of no-till although I find in
reading your posts and etc. lots of useful tidbits for thinking about my
own situation.
:-)
eliza
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