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  • From: EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
  • To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Increasing Fertility
  • Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:31:17 -0500

We had a small, 1/8 acre garden when I was a kid, and we always burnt it off in the fall..I think the prime purpose was disease preventing and to keep bugs from overwintering. It also made it easy to till under in the Spring.

bob ford wrote:
My uncle, and other people where I grew up, would 'burn' their
fields/gardens every year or two. Would that accomplish the same
result? Is it even allowed anymore?

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