From: ir@ene.nu   
      
   On 17 Jun 2006 15:17:57 -0700, "jill"  wrote:   
      
   >How to save on gas. Buy a horse, let the grass get long, let grass   
   >reseed itself for a thick lawn,  let the horse eat it, horse   
   >pooperoonies feed the earth and some mushrooms,  this makes for   
   >building soil, grass grows, repeat process $0 spent on gas.   
      
   We don't have a horse, so we need to move the lawn ourselves.   
   But we also have a small potato field that is cultivated in a rather   
   different way. We are taking a shortcut without letting horses eat the   
   grass and produce manure as fertilizer.   
    The first step is to put the potatoes on the ground and cover them   
   with old grass and mosses raked up from the lawn. The following steps   
   are to keep building layers of fresh cut-off grass whenever we feel   
   like moving the lawn. It works fine, no weeds in the potato field, no   
   need for fertilizers, rarely any need to add water if the weather   
   doesn't get extremely dry, and when the potatoes are ready to harvest,   
   they are clean, without any dirt. The only work during the summer is   
   to load the grass on the field, but it's a perfect way of getting rid   
   of it from the lawn.   
      
   Irene Andersson   
      
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