[susanParticipant]

Submitted by Slug Hunter on Wed, 08/01/2014 – 18:37

I think maybe you, like the rest of the population of this planet, don’t completely understand what energy actually is.

[susanParticipant]

Good evening Charles,

Having came across this section in your website recently I feel yet puzzled and wished to know more.
I had a few questions. You are conducting experiments on dig and no-dig methods but it also appears that as you mentioned above you use biodynamic imbuing to influence the crop.
1. My question is does this in anyway interfere with your dig vs no-dig harvest? Are they yet valid then?

2. Is the effect of imbuings the same on dug and undug beds? How we know that imbuing have no negative effect on no-dig beds?
3. How far goes the effect of imbuings you do in your land? Does it stop at the boundary of your land or it goes beyond to neighbouring lands and interferes with their crop? I mean if they do similar biodynamic imbuings how far the effects of neighbouring lands affect the results from your dug-undug experiments? Do we have a biodynamic imbuing field, somehow like electromagnetic field and how this changes with distance in Somerset?
With kind regards

[susanParticipant]

Hi Charles,
Probably it is better to use the correct terminology for each subject. The word energy is a physical term: it has its meaning and uses. Probably in referencing to the ‘biodynamic’ rituals and rites if we insert the word ‘magic’ in place of ‘energy’ we can be more to the point since obviously here we are not talking physics, hence the word ‘energy’ is out of context. The reader also will know what is being talked about.
On a separate note I can not believe this is 21st century England where people like Maxwell and Dirac worked.

[susanParticipant]

Good evening Charles,
I have now posted some photos of the Patty Pan winter squash.

[susanParticipant]

Thanks Charles,
I can now update the rating of winter squash that I started here. We had our first Blue Hubard winter squash. I used it in making the pasta sauce and then the rest of it is cooking in pot for lunch.
Blue Hubard has a very tough skin and a deep orange flesh so sweet that I can comfortably rate as:

Blue Hubard: 7

Adding winter squash to pasta sauce created some pleasant surprises. I always felt the sauce is too much acidic and salty with all that tomato and cheese topping. However the diced squash made it nicely sweeter or as I wish to put it pasta sauce is made more ‘humane’ by adding some sweet winter squash!

Unfortunately if you have not planted this exotic winter squash last year you have to wait until September to experience this, but you can have taste it of it by going to one of the Asian ethnic shops. Usually at this season the ethnic shops ( which we are blessed to have them in many large towns in Britain) sell some varieties of squash which you never find elsewhere in supermarkets. You can find whole or sliced Crown Prince squashes and some other smaller winter squashes!

I may not plant Butternut squash this year as it does come close in taste and smell to any of these varieties that I have grown last year. I even felt last year’s Butternut smelled and tasted somehow a bit metallic, somehow like the smell of a workshop.

Wish you and family a healthy, bountiful and prosperous growing year.

PS: Charles, If you will add the pictures to the forum I can send you some photos of this winter squash.

[susanParticipant]

Thanks for this. Yes I grow these Patty Pans and agree they taste good, your recipe sounds delicious.
I wish you a happy and bountiful new year, and your family,

Charles

[susanParticipant]

Oh my God! I had also lots of courgette varieties planted nearby!
So my seeds may end up producing plants tasting like courgette-pumpkins. I don’t think there was a way to avoid this as even if I did not gave courgettes nearby the neighbouring plots would have them.
It means I have to buy new seeds again.

[susanParticipant]

Good evening Charles,
Thank you for your heart warming reply. I am so delighted that my garlics are not sick!
I wanted to tell you also how much I like your books, all the four of them. I especially like the “Organic gardening: the natural no dig way”. Everydy I go through it and it is my first reference work when I want to look for something about vegetables and fruits and especially which varieties have worked well. Your style of writing is superb when you say “I do this” or “I have done that”. It’s nice to read the work of someone who actually cultivating what he is writing about. You style is superior to the style of posh, elitist BBC gardening programs and their books. You are one of us.

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