Comments for The Organic Forecast

Comment on 5 Tips for Soil Tests by Mark Murphy

Mark Murphy — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 15:16:47 +0000

I never knew that having a high amount of salinity in your soil can mean that our plants are very unhealthy! My sister is a very avid gardener, and recently she has been complaining to me that her new plants aren’t growing as well as she would have expected. I will be sure to suggest to her that she checks the salinity of her soil!

Comment on Explosions of Color! by Ginger

Ginger — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 06:09:23 +0000

Great pics! I especially like the one with the small human.

Comment on How to Grow Gorgeous Garden Onions! by Susan

Susan — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:31:03 +0000

Thanks for the tips!

Comment on March 2018 Jordan Valley Conservation Garden Classes by Carmen McDonald

Carmen McDonald — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 17:51:10 +0000

Thank you Katie! I learned so much from both classes!!!

Comment on Contact by Vergil Young

Vergil Young — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:31:53 +0000

Hello,
I’m thinking of building a shade awning using 50% shade cloth for my garden, the last couple of hot summers have been brutal on my garden. Is this really worth the time and labor.
Thank you. The Youngs

Comment on Is it Alkali or Alkaline? by organicforecast

organicforecast — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 18:27:33 +0000

Hello Connie-

The Eagle Mountain area soils are generally very coarse textured (high sand content) and tend to be fairly high in pH (or alkalinity). In fact, in many areas, there appears to be pH levels (>8.5) and sodium contents (Sodium Adsorption Ratio, or SAR >10) that would indicate a tendency to be sodic (over-saturated with sodium). This condition can cause issues with soil structure breakdown, low infiltration, and plant toxicity in some very high cases.

Other areas are much higher in lime (or calcium carbonate) content. I have seen some soils in the area as high as 50% lime content (or very high, soft limestone content) that probably makes them quite whitish in color below the surface.

So there are a variety of soils in the area, and most display various common properties to arid zone, desert soils (high pH, high lime content, some pockets of sodium excess, some areas of higher salinity, and sandy textures).

Grant

Comment on Fall Garden Checklist- Top 10 by Michael

Michael — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 06:23:06 +0000

Nice post!! I read your post ,and you explain here more informative information about the garden map . It’s a facinating point. Thanks for sharing this post.

Comment on Is it Alkali or Alkaline? by Connie stephens

Connie stephens — Fri, 08 Sep 2017 08:09:49 +0000

Hi Grant,
Thanks for the interesting article. I look forward to reading more of your work.
Grant, can you tell me about the area of Eagle Mountain, I’ve never seen soil such as this?
Thank you,
Connie

Comment on Be on the Look-out for this Unwanted House Guest! by Russ

Russ — Mon, 10 Jul 2017 13:39:54 +0000

I found a green one and a brown one the green one seemed to like my daughter and kept crawling on her. The brown one is just sitting on my bbqer. I live in tooele, ut. I guess now I look around a little more I see 4 of them.

Comment on Organic Trade Agreements by Birdie

Birdie — Tue, 02 May 2017 10:41:56 +0000

I love how the practice separates our usual, habitual way of measuring success (how much am I making) with what else we can pay attention to and have without any financial change. This is a lovely time of year to be in reflection about what is important to us and I will inocaporrte it into my usual end-of-year reflective questions and practice. Thank you.[]