Year: 2006

A Casual Repost from Teacher Liu’s Blog on Agriculture, Industrial Civilization, and “Progress”

http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/485ea8790100051y Failed Planting 2006-09-10 17:40:00 This year I had two failed planting attempts, one with corn and one with chayote. The seeds of both plants came from Yunnan. The corn grew well at first, but it was too luxuriant, and the plants grew too tall—some even reached 3.4 meters! There were also some stalks without ears, and some were even covered with black mold. The reason may have been inappropriate seed selection. The seeds came from Simao, Yunnan. There, they were not tall either, and not overly luxuriant, but once brought north they changed. My father says that usually seeds from the south, when planted in the north, become too…