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= Ruth Stout (Ruth Imogen Stout) (Note) =
 * Gardener. Writer.

Inventing, 1944, a “No-Work” method of mulch gardening, farming.



== Ruth Stout at Wikipedia, the Ruth Stout system, the publishings (Works). ==

== Ruth Stout at World Heritage Encyclopedia (Note) ==

Quotes "Compiled by World Heritage Encyclopedia", "sourced from Wikipedia". (Sadnessly now - Status: Mo. 16th of May 2022 - not public anymore, because of the requirement: Registration.)

= The sustainable benefits this mulch method =
 * Saving efforts of: time, works, energy.
 * Saving water-ressources.
 * Keeps water (humidity) more and longer in the soil, even in more hotter areas.


 * Establishing lividly, healthy soil.
 * Multiplying soil and nutrients, as ´side-effect´.
 * By composting in place.

(Note: For not to promote the ideology (philosophy is ideology) Permaculture not linked to Wikipedia ´Sheet mulching´, where ´sheet mulching´ is mentioned as "known as composting in place" ; article at Wikipedia does not exist (Tuesday, 13th of June 2021), not even as part of the Wikipedia Compost article. OK. But to Mulch and Compost.)
 * Creates ph7 as side-effect, which provides the demands of all plants, for acidic and alkaline needs.
 * Without: plowing, digging, touching in into the growing, lividly soil-life structure, if not necessary.

Quotes
Bold here, in the TOC (Table Of Content): the statements the essential short.''

Gardening topic related
From Publication, by Ruth Stout: Ruth Stout's System for Gardening (in magazine Mother Earth News -- March 2004) https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/ruth-stouts-system-zmaz04fmzsel (As pdf-file heyschermer.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/9/1/14912542/ruth_stouts_system_for_gardening_motherearthnews.pdf)

The inventing
==== Now and then I am asked (usually by an irritated expert) why I think I invented mulching. Well, naturally, I don't think so; God invented it simply by deciding to have the leaves fall off the trees once a year. I don't even think that I'm the first, or only person, who thought up my particular variety of year-round mulching, but apparently I'm the first to make a big noise about it — writing, talking, demonstrating. ====

The beginning
´Short version (1)´ (Source: self.gutenberg.org Ruth Stout) ==== "In the Spring of 1944, Stout decided that she wasn't going to wait for the plowman, nor was she going to plow on her own. Instead she planted the seeds and covered them, waiting to see what would happen, and discovered surprising success." ====

´Short version (2)´ (Source: Wikipedia Ruth Stout, Roots of the no-work method) ==== In the Spring of 1944, after following the advice of other gardeners who used commercial fertilizers, "poisonous sprays" and plowing for fifteen years, Stout decided that she wasn't going to wait for the plowman, nor was she going to plow on her own. Instead she planted the seeds and covered them, waiting to see what would happen, and discovered surprising success. ====

´Long version´ (Source: usrepresented.com ´The Whole Ruth´, part 3) ==== Ruth’s Big Gardening Break-Through It was during WWII that Ruth started on a path that would ultimately and completely change her view of how to garden. She said this new vision came about from her own impatience. Every spring she would be eager to plant, and every spring she had to wait for the plowman to turn over the earth first, as that’s how it was done. The growing season was short in Connecticut and with plowing delayed, well, it was slightly maddening. Ruth grew a lot of their food, had a huge garden to plant, and wanted to get to work. While she was in great health, she was growing older (in 1944 she’d turn 60), and it was beginning to seem like too much work. She relates that that early April day, in the spring of 1944, after 14 years of gardening, she went outside to the garden “to shed a tear,” because she couldn’t plant yet. While there, she asked the asparagus, “We don’t have to plow for you, why do we have to plow for the other vegetables?” She said the asparagus replied, saying, “You don’t. Go ahead and plant.” She decided to plant her vegetable seeds then, with no plowing, and waited to see what would happen. Ruth would discover that with her method, annual vegetables and flowers could thrive without plowing. All they needed was straw mulch. Her first experience was successful enough to encourage her to do more, but it would take a few years to develop and refine her “no-work” method. ====

The method
==== My no-work gardening method is simply to keep a thick mulch of any vegetable matter that rots on both my vegetable and flower garden all year round. As it decays and enriches the soil, I add more. The labor-saving part of my system is that I never plow, spade, sow a cover crop, harrow, hoe, cultivate, weed, water or spray. ==== Starting mulching

==== I beg everyone to start with a mulch 8 inches deep; otherwise, weeds may come through, ==== Starting the establishing a healthy soil fast (in from about 2 months ), with mulch and (animal´s) manure

Should you spread manure and plow it under before you mulch? Yes, if your soil isn't very rich; otherwise, mulch alone will answer the purpose.
Manure ==== Many People Want to Know Why I Don't Use Manure and What I Have Against It. I have nothing at all against it; in fact, I have a somewhat exaggerated respect for it. But I no longer need it; the ever-rotting mulch takes its place. ====

half-dozen people have sent me poems they composed about manure piles
Wood chips perfect mulch layer

==== Use all the leaves you can find. Clip your cornstalks into foot length pieces and use them. Utilize your garbage, tops of perennials, any and all vegetable matter that rots. In many localities, the utility companies grind up the branches they cut off when they clear the wires; and often they are glad to dump them near your garden, with no charge. ====

From Publication, by Ruth Stout: Ruth Stout's System for Gardening (in magazine Mother Earth News -- March 2004) https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/ruth-stouts-system-zmaz04fmzsel

(Sorry, still deciding, where to place it, here or above.)

Garden books, Editions, Languages
(In progress: Languages: english, german, swedish)

Quotes (Source https://usrepresented.com/2014/12/17/whole-ruth-3/)
 * Before (or) 1955, (source ?), the first book self-published, (title (and source) searching).
 * "Now in her mid-sixties, she self-published her very first book.",
 * "His wife’s self-published book proved successful enough that in 1955 Exposition Press in New York re-published Ruth’s book as How to have a Green Thumb without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening. Ruth said she thought the title was rather silly, but went along with it."

Source, limited preview https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6178209M/How_to_have_a_green_thumb_without_an_aching_back#bookPreview
 * 1955, How to have a Green Thumb without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening, by Ruth Stout, Leta Macleod Brunckhorst, [1st ed.]. Exposition Press New York, English. Pages 164.
 * (5 Editions, until 1990 https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2118058W/How_to_have_a_green_thumb_without_an_aching_back?edition=howtohavegreenth00stou#editions-list)

(Un-ordered still) Quotes
 * 1971, The Ruth Stout No-Work Garden Book, by Ruth Stout and Richard Clemence. Rodale Press, English. Pages 218. ISBN (10): 0878570004
 * "Authors' articles published in" (the magazine) "Organic gardening and farming, 1953-1971.",
 * "Other Titles": "Organic gardening and farming., No-work garden book."

Source, (limited) preview, contents https://openlibrary.org/books/OL5705122M/The_Ruth_Stout_no-work_garden_book
 * (Four) further editions https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/159979-the-ruth-stout-no-work-garden-book

https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/159979-the-ruth-stout-no-work-garden-book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/165688.The_Ruth_Stout_No_Work_Garden_Book https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-ruth-stout-no-work-garden-book_ruth-stout_richard-clemence/249972/#edition=1851227&idiq=4396694 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6178209M/How_to_have_a_green_thumb_without_an_aching_back Gardening Without Work For the Aging, the Busy & the Indolent Norton Creek Press, August 2011, 226 pages, ISBN 0981928463 https://www.nortoncreekpress.com/wordpress/gardening_without_work/ a few (english) https://www.goveganic.net/article182.html?lang=en some editions (english, german, swedish) https://www.worldcat.org/title/ruth-stout-no-work-garden-book/oclc/156488/editions?sd=desc&se=yr&editionsView=true&fq=&lang=en Books (Editions, Languages, timeline) from 1955 https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85347744/

See also some historical and other organic gardening topics

 * Wikipedia Back to Eden Gardening article does not exist. (Video interview at Youtube:) Back to Eden Gardening - Interview & Tour with Paul Gautschi - How To Start No-Till Wood Chip Garden, 17m 32s, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWkgU9mORt8
 * Water ressources, energy, work, time saving, at least from much less watering necessary. Establishing healthy soil and nutrients. Multiplying soil and nutrients. Creating ph7.


 * Zai,
 * quotes "an off season" "farming technique to dig pits" "to catch water and concentrate compost"


 * Franklin Hiram King, 1911,
 * Farmers of Forty Centuries, or Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan


 * Masanobu Fukuoka, "natural farming and re-vegetation of desertified lands".
 * (Greening The Desert), interview, 1986, https://web.archive.org/web/20101206180734/http://context.org/ICLIB/IC14/Fukuoka.htm


 * Terra Preta
 * Water ressources, energy and work saving, at least from much less watering necessary. A preparation as requirement for healthy soil creating and more water (humidity) keeping. (Also as adding.) Nutrients are being deposited in the charcoal (of the Terra Preta) until needed (no over-fertilizing).


 * Effective Microorganisms (EMs)
 * Against any mold, in garden, in farming, and buildings. Is liked to be used for indoor climate betterment in hotels, in animal´s barns as cow barns or horse barns, at least in Germany. (I only know it from there, from internet searches; serious sources appreciated. In english currently these two sources for composting barns, which are well to combine with EMs
 * https://nzarn.org.nz/2019/04/01/composting-barns/ and https://www.progressivedairy.com/topics/barns-equipment/air-and-light-considerations-for-compost-bedded-pack-barns)
 * Whey, as alternative, or as add
 * https://winescience.org/vineyard/whey-powdery-mildew/ https://yellowbreadshorts.com/3867-what-will-happen-if-you-feed-plants-with-serum.html (language presentation perhaps depending on from which country calling this site, so to english translation perhaps double now, sorry http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fyellowbreadshorts.com%2F3867-what-will-happen-if-you-feed-plants-with-serum.html)


 * Agricultural Library from in Soil and Health Library
 * Quotes "This website provides free downloadable e-books about radical agriculture, natural hygiene/nature cure and self-sufficiency.", "There is no fee for downloading anything in this library."

= (Author´s Memo) =

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote_talk:Manual_of_style#Looking_for_a_Template:Quote https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Village_pump

To ´Talk´: Still open question to me is: did Ruth Stout, and when (year) and where (which book, which site), did ´some´ statements already in her earlier books or any else publications ? Special about manure.

(The video, the book ´The Whole Ruth´, from interesst for Mediawiki, Wikimedia Commons, the books to Wikibooks ?)