Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Dean" <andeanfx@midrivers.com>]

Paul, speaking of year around growing, we are quite a way north of you but 
at a lower elevation (I think) but would like to have produce for personal 
use as close to year around as possible.  Is that feasible with a decent 
size green house?  If a tomato plant is grown in an environment with a 
removable cover, i.e. started under cover then the cover removed and the 
cover replaced in the fall how long will that plant produce fruit, etc. etc. 
Dean


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
To: <emitch@att.net>; <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:34 AM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the Dervaes family - No-till, Permanent Bed 
Farming


> Mitch, I saw that article on the Dervaes some time ago but was skeptical
> about anyone producing so much on so little land. Now they reveal how,
> growing in beds year round. We can't do year round in this climate, but
> with permanent mulched beds we come close in productivity. So it's quite
> believable.
>
> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>
> *********** REPLY SEPARATOR  ***********
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> On 2/26/2008 at 5:54 AM E. E. Mitchamore Jr wrote:
>
> > This very good article reminded me of one item I learned in a seminar (on
> > native landscaping) last weekend.  When mulching, be sure to leave some
> > bare patches of soil.  Bees and butterflies, both pollinators, require
> > bare soil for some of their nesting, mating, and feeding habits.  All part
> > of the dance of nature.
> >
> > E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
> > www.hillcountrynatives.biz
> >  ----- Original Message ----- 
> >  From: Tradingpost
> >  To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
> >  Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 8:00 PM
> >  Subject: [Livingontheland] the Dervaes family - No-till,Permanent Bed
> > Farming
> >
> >
> >
> >  the Dervaes family - No-till, Permanent Bed Farming
> >
> >  The yard has over 350 varieties of edible and useful plants. The
> >  homestead's productive 1/10 acre organic garden now grows over 6,000
> > pounds
> >  (3 tons) of produce annually.
> >
> >  You can add amendments to the surface
> >  under a mulch or add them to the hole in which you are planting. The
> soil
> >  creatures will mix the amendments into your soil. In the fall, you can
> > use
> >  a cover crop, cover the soil with leaves, or plant a winter crop like
> >  turnips or kale. Just don't leave your soil bare.
>
>
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