Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

You'd have the same problem with perennials like asparagus. Can't mow
there. I don't cover crop. I use a layer of aged, dried & screened manure
to cover beds in the winter. Snow and rain give the soil good doses of
manure tea. I also add small amounts of dilute fish emulsion long before
planting time. It's easy to pull aside the thin manure layer for ten rows
running the length of a 3-foot wide bed, for planting. 30 plants longways x
ten rows across makes 300 carrots in a 3x8 foot bed. 24 beds makes 7,200
carrots. I do the rest of the beds the same way for other crops. On some I
add a thin layer of spoiled hay between plants. The drip can be left in
place all year with no-till.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/6/2008 at 11:50 AM Dean wrote:

>I have been really inpressed with no till gardening, especisally the lack
>of 
>weeds.  I am having a problem with working cover crops in with the no
>till. 
>So, the garden is harvested in the fall, the cover crop is planted; in the

>spring, before it goes to seed it s cut close to the ground.  How do you 
>work around the root base that is left in the soil?  With things like 
>tomatoes where plants are set out i don't see a problem but how do you
>plant 
>things from seed like carrots?  Dean 
>
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