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Jack · Joined: 04 Mar 2007 Posts: 71 Location: North Otago

Gidday

Actually Wayland, that was when I lived up in the North Isdland which has a climate similar to what you have I believe, although it may be a bit warmer.

The Sabbatical Fallow I mentioned is where you lock up one seventh of the property for an entire year and let the grass just grow and fall down and grow up through it. It is sometimes refered to as sheet composting. You work it out, say you get grass growth of 12000 kg. per ha. and all of that weight of drymatter in the form of good compost.

Perhaps I should post about that on a different thread.

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