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  • From: Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Minimum Tools For Small-Time Garden Farming
  • Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2009 11:47:14 -0800 (PST)

Planting right to the margins you'd get rows of 25 or 250 for the bed.


--- On Sat, 12/5/09, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

From: Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] The Minimum Tools For Small-Time Garden Farming
To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Saturday, December 5, 2009, 2:07 PM


Not that everybody ought to do it one way. Those with enough land should do cover crops, rotate, and graze animals, ideally. And there are other ways to produce sustainably. This is what works for me on less than a quarter acre, and considering I'm not a youngster any more, millions with little room to grow could do even better. By building healthy soil from dry dirt, in raised beds, I can produce quite a bit for markets in very limited space. And of course I'm still learning from mistakes and successes.

Here's a question: how many carrots can you get in just one 3x8 bed if you thin them to 4 inches apart each direction?


paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 12/5/2009 at 2:05 PM TradingPostPaul wrote:

>Yes we do have; there's little farming around here besides irrigated
>alfalfa, but lots of houses with just enough acreage for a couple horses.
>Through a friend I got free pickup loads of aged horse manure, not
>medicated. I shoveled it thru a quarter inch screen of hardware cloth and
>it breaks down fast in the beds, mixed with purchased alfalfa meal,
>greensand and rock phosphate. Failure to amend this ground is not an
>option.
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>paul tradingpost@lobo.net
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