Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/888/en

The soil cultivation appropriate to the autumn process of natural dying no longer directs itself primarily toward the promotion and preservation of life processes — as does skin tillage in spring for the activation of humus breakdown, or mulch cultivation in summer for the promotion of humus formation. The breaking-up of a green manure or fodder stand does bring nutritive humus into the soil, but this for the most part only converts and contributes to soil dynamics in the following year's spring cycle. Soil cultivation in autumn, strictly speaking, takes no account of what is past but prepares what is to come: the winter process. Attention turns now not to the metabolic pole, the humus layer, but to the mineral element of the soil — to clay, silt, and fine sand. Autumn — above all late autumn — allows for a deep or clay working, an autumn-winter furrow (Figure 13, p. 222). It brings about a destruction — or better: a chaotization — of everything that has built itself up so wonderfully over the course of the year in strict order as soil life. This must now be chaotized — together with the mineral constituents of the soil — in preparation for the