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To: Fai Mao
We really do not want that volcano to erupt

Above our paygrade.

However... volcanic ash does bode well for vine-culture. I'm going to get some grape vines and oak barrels.

Life gives you lemons, make margaritas, life gives you volcanic ash, make wine. Worked for the Italians.

/johnny

8 posted on 07/10/2014 10:01:51 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Life gives you lemons, make margaritas, life gives you volcanic ash, make wine. Worked for the Italians.

/johnny


Yeah, nothing to worry about if that one blows.

/laplata


14 posted on 07/10/2014 10:07:03 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

True, from what I understand that the Volcano ash or soil is pure to plant with.


29 posted on 07/10/2014 10:22:37 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: JRandomFreeper; Patriot Babe

The only problem with that is, last time the caldera erupted, it put down nearly a meter of ash. Once that gets wet, it essentially turns to concrete. Kind of tuff (heh) to grow things in. It would probably take at least a century of freeze-thaw to break it up enough to start things growing again.


44 posted on 07/10/2014 10:35:42 PM PDT by Little Pig
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To: JRandomFreeper
Life gives you lemons, make margaritas, life gives you volcanic ash, make wine. Worked for the Italians.

Unless you lived in Pompeii. Otherwise the grapes were great. In reality volcanic ash is great fertilizer but it is best used in moderation.

53 posted on 07/10/2014 10:45:09 PM PDT by cpdiii (deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist. The constitution is worth dying for!)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Life gives you lemons, make margaritas,

Do this instead. ;-)

60 posted on 07/11/2014 1:03:50 AM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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