I have a 160 acre farm that rents for 5,000 a year. If you wish to try your
methods I would be willing to rent it to you if you would agree to install
web cams so we can all watch you push the mower up and down each row a half
mile row and there are 800 rows on the farm. So if you can push the more at
2 miles an hour you cover 2 rows an hour so it take 10 40 hour weeks to get
across once. If you are willing to work the work the farmers usual 80 hour
weeks you can make it in 5 weeks plus time for the rains. In 5 weeks the
weeds will grow up too big for you mower to control them and you can't hire
people to push mowers. So you will have to reinstate slavery to farm that
place.

Good luck
Gordon

You are neglecting two things. Water lost by evaotranpriation of the grass
and the loss of nitrogen by denitrifying bacteria that are always at work to
some degree added to that the fertilizer is locked up in the grass until it
is decomposed.
"Archimedes Plutonium" wrote in message
...
I ran some tests last year and this year with the aim of looking for the
optimum strategy of weeding and or fertilizing. And I came to these
conclusions that in
large scale agriculture that no fertilizing is ever necessary provided
that the cutting of grasses and weeds nearby to the desired-plant. Thus,
if all farms were
run where a pushmower between rows of crops that such would be optimum.
Never one drop of gasoline or fuel ever used.

My strawberry patch. Almost everyone reading this message and who keeps
a
garden believes that the desired plant and black dirt all around it is
the greatest
thing. Far from the truth. It takes alot of work to keep a strawberry
patch weed
free and in black dirt. But is it the optimum? The optimum is what
plants themselves must do to thrive. Weeds and grasses do not harm a
strawberry
patch as long as they are kept below the level of the strawberry leaves.
And the
clippings provide fertilizer for the strawberries. And no-one knows if
the disturbed soil of a strawberry invites insect parasites. The best
for a strawberry
plant is to keep all the grass and weeds clipped below the level of the
strawberry
leaves. It is reckless to pull up weeds and grasses near strawberries
but rather
to clip them and have them fertilize the strawberries.

And no-one knows whether a strawberry plant prefers the soil surrounding
of
weed and grass free or whether the strawberry roots prefer to have
neighboring
roots.

As long as the strawberries have no competitors that get taller than the
strawberry
leaves and to use the clippings as fertilizer is the optimum. Besides,
it is much
easier and faster to go out and clip the weeds and grasses in your
strawberry patch than to pull up by the roots.

Theory: plants win if they can get taller than their neighboring plants
and once
they win by getting taller they kill their neighbors.

Theory: no fertilizer application is ever needed if the plant clippings
are constantly added to the soil. In the future when gasoline and
petroleum become
rare then agriculture will be forced to farm in this method.

Archimedes Plutonium,
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies