Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Barbara Money <bmoney9@verizon.net>]

Technically, right now I don't; I have three plots of varying ages and 
sizes, and the first year tillage or spading was an absolute 
requirement! I'm also planting one of the older beds with permanent 
crops (Jerusalem artichokes, Asparagus Rhubarb and multiplier onions) so 
I had to dig a trench for the asparagus, and the 'chokes get dug up and 
a few replanted in the fall, same with the onions. So I don't know if 
that qualifies as no-till. But in the future I will be only putting a 
deep mulch of well-composted horse manure (I'm just praying there's none 
of those weedkillers in the stuff the horses ate!), so there will be 
little if any disturbance to the soil. But organic, yes (not certified).

Barbara M
Foster, RI

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