day to start and continue growth.- Using weed killers or soil sterilizers. Many weed killers
are short-lived, but they can limit growth in a garden
long after they are supposed to degrade. Some people
use them to minimize or eliminate yard care, but they
can continue to have an effect for 2 years. There is
never any reason to use these poisons in your yard.
Also, dumping used motor oil can destroy valuable
growing areas. Take it to a service station for recycling. - Using old seeds. Check your source.
- Planting in soil that is too wet. Wet soil restricts
oxygen, which is required for root growth. Plants can
die in fertile soils when soil oxygen is too low to
sustain growth.
Pricking Out Seedlings
The GROW BIOINTENSIVE method continually seeks to
foster uninterrupted plant growth. Part of this technique
is embodied in the “breakfast-lunch-dinner” concept that
Alan Chadwick stressed. If seedlings are raised in very
good soil—with good nutrients and a good structure—
only to be transplanted into an area that has few
nutrients and a poor structure, the plants will su<er root
shock. Results are better when seedlings are pricked out
from a at with a good planting mixture “breakfast” into
a second at with a “lunch” consisting of fresh at soil.
The plant will forget the trauma of being pricked out