Nitrogen for farming, The price is up about 300% this
year under Biden.
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You can use beans as fertilizer?
OH MY GOSH IT IS THE TITS!!!!
Look up something that I think is called complementary agriculture.
So some plants are able to put nutrients into the soil, beans are one of them. They add nitrogen to the soil AS THEY GROW, so you can use them to help nitrogen hungry plants like tomatoes without needing additional fertilization while growing beans that you can eat!!!!!
Agriculture is wicked awesome.
Look up the food forest oasis in the desert!
I will check that out. I live in the desert and myself and friends grow edibles. It is definitely a challenge over here.
Please do, I have seen at least two examples of someone starting a food forest in the middle of the desert. Hugleculture I think is what they used. Basically just burying organic matter like logs in the sand and letting them break down makes a nutrient dense soil perfect for growing that is amazeballs at storing water. Needless to say we have not been growing right at all, go figure.
"three sisters" method
Nitrogen fixing bacteria in their roots
I believe all legumes do this, so would clover work too?
You are correct. Even tree species in the legume family will fix nitrogen perennially instead of tilling in as a cover crop like clover or rotating like soy beans. I personally like to feed the biology of the soil, the microcosm of life is really what makes nutrients available for plants. So increasing organic matter for worms and fungus and bacteria etc, you're indirectly giving the plants easier food to use as fuel.
I do believe having one field completely filled with clover in a crop rotation system used to be standard in the old days.
Guess I jumped the gun on that response, last in a long line of country folks. Another great source of nitrogen for the small farmer is urine, your body inhales a considerable amount of nitrogen an excretes it in pee. It's diluted in a 10:1 ratio.
The beans or legume plants pull nitrogen out of the air an put it in the soil. It's often used as a winter cover crop then tilled into the soil in early spring.