{"id":6150,"date":"2020-12-01T22:45:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T19:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/?page_id=6150"},"modified":"2020-12-02T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T10:46:48","slug":"no-weed-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/index.php\/no-weed-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"No Weed Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo weeding by tillage or herbicides.<\/p>\n<p>Weeds play their part in building soil fertility and in\u00a0 balancing the biological community. As a fundamental\u00a0 principle, weeds should be controlled, not eliminated.\u00a0 Straw mulch, a ground cover of white clover interplanted with the crops, and temporary flooding provide effective\u00a0 weed control in my fields.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some key points to remember in dealing with\u00a0 weeds:<\/p>\n<p>As soon as cultivation is discontinued, the number of\u00a0 weeds decreases sharply. Also, the varieties of weeds in a\u00a0 given field will change.<\/p>\n<p>If seeds are sown while the preceding crop is still\u00a0 ripening in the field, those seeds will germinate ahead of\u00a0 the weeds. Winter weeds sprout only after the rice has been\u00a0 harvested, but by that time the winter grain already has a\u00a0 head start. Summer weeds sprout right after the harvest of\u00a0 barley and rye, but the rice is already growing strongly.\u00a0 Timing the seeding in such a way that there is no interval\u00a0between succeeding crops gives the grain a great advantage\u00a0 over the weeds. Directly after the harvest, if the whole field\u00a0 is covered with straw, the germination of weeds is stopped\u00a0 short. White clover sowed with the grain as a ground cover\u00a0also helps to keep weeds under control. The usual way to\u00a0 deal with weeds is to cultivate the soil. But when you\u00a0 cultivate, seeds lying deep in the soil, which would never\u00a0 have germinated otherwise, are stirred up and given a\u00a0 chance to sprout. Furthermore, the quick-sprouting, fast growing varieties are given the advantage under these\u00a0 conditions. So you might say that the farmer who tries to\u00a0 control weeds by cultivating the soil is, quite literally,\u00a0 sowing the seeds of his own misfortune.\u00a0\u201c<\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong><em>Source:<span style=\"color: #008000;\">The One-Straw Revolution (Masanobu Fukuoka, October 1975)<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FB_IMG_1584896058876.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FB_IMG_1584896058876.jpg 960w, https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FB_IMG_1584896058876-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/FB_IMG_1584896058876-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNo weeding by tillage or herbicides. Weeds play their part in building soil fertility and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6150","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6153,"href":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6150\/revisions\/6153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogal-tarim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}