Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

> Leeks. . .are cut down to the white part, then left two to three weeks to 
> produce a second crop. Afterwards roots are left in the soil where they 
> regenerate making seed for the following year.

Do these sentences mean anything at all to anyone else? I've never seen 
a single reference to eating leek *tops* but eating the tops is the only 
thing that would make the above make sense.

> However, the problem of slugs is still not resolved. The ducks, which have a 
> small pond in the middle of the garden, turned out to be inefficient (they're 
> asleep when the slugs are in full swing!). Emilia is looking for other 
> predators to intervene in the biological struggle.

I have found that, if I put the chicken flock on the garden pre-season 
(late winter to very early spring), they clean up the slugs and their 
eggs; and it takes months for the population to recover to potentially 
damaging levels.

~Harvey


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Harvey in northern Virginia
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The building of new topsoil depends on us, and our future depends on building 
new topsoil. This is the greatest challenge facing modern agriculture.  
~Christine Jones