Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Ken Hargesheimer <minifarms2@yahoo.com>]

The people in Argentina learned years ago that there is not a time when "tillage or spading" is a requirement.  My personal experience proves it, also.  Mark off the beds, add mulch and go.  If you have Bermuda grass, dig it out first or cover with layers of newspaper or cardboard and leave until it dies.

 

Ken Hargesheimer

--- On Mon, 5/3/10, Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us> wrote:

From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] do you have an organic no-till garden?
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, May 3, 2010, 5:36 AM

On 05/02/2010 07:05 PM, Barbara Money wrote:
> . . .the first year tillage or spading was an absolute
> requirement!  ~Barbara M
>   

When tillage is "an absolute requirement," remember the broadfork, the
ideal tool for loosening soil at depth without inverting/mixing the
layers of the soil profile. See
http://themodernhomestead.us/article/Handcrafted+Broadfork.html
http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Organic-Gardening-Tillage.html

~Harvey


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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us

My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year by Chelsea Green Publishing.


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