Dean Hoffman wrote:
(snipped what I wrote)


A couple things come to mind. The grass and weeds take valuable
moisture so your idea would work only in areas with plenty of rainfall.

Well, not really. That is mostly a assumption never really tested. Of course
in the desert of say Arizona or New Mexico where water really is critical
then any and all weeds are avoided.

But starting with the Grasslands and higher water regions I suspect that
assumption is false. I have noticed, but not run a full science test, that
when you have a dry spell on these Prairie grasslands. That a plant
surrounded by black dirt with no competing weeds nearby does more
poorly than does a plant surrounded by weeds which those weeds are
kept cut and trimmed to the ground. Why that is I cannot say for sure
in that the clippings do contain moisture which perhaps gets to the
desired crop plant or whether the soil with the weed roots undisturbed
retains more moisture than the tilled and hoed ground around the
crop plant.

I would guess that from Praire Grasslands on upwards to more
watery zones, that having clipped or mowed weeds nearby a
cropplant is far better than having black soil dirt near the cropplant.
And it is undisputed that having mowed clippings near a cropplant
benefits the plant in both moisture and in nitrogen nutrients.


They also take nutrients out of the soil.

That is the purpose of farming the ConcreteBlock method in that the
weeds become the fertilizer. Everytime you go out and mow your lawn
and leave the grassclippings on the lawn you are fertilizing your lawn.

The ConcreteBlock will replace the tractor and all farm equipment.
And a farm will never again need to fertilize their fields. We want the
worst weeds in the world to come into our farmfields because the more
they grow is more clippings for our cropplants.


Farmers had horse drawn planters and cultivators before tractors. Tin
shields protected the plants as the cultivator shovels went by. The same is
true today with tractor drawn equipment.

I wonder if a grasstrimmer is more efficient than a lawnmower in the use
of gasoline per acre or hectare. Of course no damage must be done to concrete
block and I am unfamilar as to whether those grass trimmers would damage
a block with their plastic or metal wire. Something I would have to research
and a trimmer would be easier to go between block. What I do is line the
block into a row where one block touches another and it is easy for my
lawnmower to hug the outside wall and run straight down the row.

But I daresay that once the tomato plants are tall and vigorous that it will
be almost difficult to run the lawnmower down there. Worst yet for the
watermelon.


There used to be something called check planting. A wire was stretched
the length of the row. This wire had evenly spaced knobs or knots on it.
The planter would drop a seed at each knot. The wire had to be moved after
the planter completed a pass. This planting method would allow a field to
be cultivated east-west and north-south to help eliminate the weeds.
Crop rotation used to be regular practice. The U.S. Farm program and
economics put and end to that for awhile. Rotation is being practiced more
now since the Freedom to Farm Act (1996) and the invention of Roundup ready
soybeans.
There used to be migrant workers that would come through to weed the
soybeans before RR beans were invented. The workers did fine with their
hoes without an obstacle in the way.
What happens to your concrete enclosed plants in a heavy rain? That might
be something to test. What if a worker trips and bangs his head against one
of those blocks? I smell lawsuit. Just askin.

Dean

The whole point of ConcreteBlock Farming is to get rid of tractors and all
petrol
powered equipment. To use weeds and grass as fertilizer and so never again do
you need to buy any chemicals.

The ConcreteBlock becomes the Order for the farm instead of the tractor being
the Order. Instead of getting a field black soil with no plants except your
monoculture one plant, here we want weeds and grasses. We do not care what
weeds and grasses come. Send us your very worst weeds because we mow them
down and throw them onto our cropplant to utilize their moisture and fertilizer

content.

In our ConcreteBlock farming we produce all Organic food, the best food in the
world that you do not even have to wash but eat right off the cob. And our
ConcreteBlock farming loses no soil to the Mississippi River Basin such that
after 20 or 30 generations of farming the old petrol based way has all of its
topsoil way down into the Gulf Ocean basin. We do not poison any of our
land with chemicals, our food is Organic and chemical free and we lose no
topsoil. In fact, we gain in topsoil every year from the soil blown in from the

farmers due north and west of our farmland. So as they lose their topsoil every

year we gain it and gradually our farm becomes a hill. We lose no topsoil
because our ground is never exposed to the wind and rain that all petrol based
farming does.

Our farm cannot be big as the petrol based farmers because we have to mow
the weeds every summer so we cannot take care of thousands of acres but
100 acres is all we can manage. But that is okay because we are guardians
of the land who produce pure fresh safe organic food, we are not the strippers
of the topsoil that fills the Gulf Ocean floor.

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