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- From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
- To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Oats as a crop?
- Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:55:06 +0100
Any grain or seed that we lay on top of the soil
here can be forgotten about Debbie. Birds and rodents will have the lot. I
remember planting over 6 thousand peas and see just one plant come up quickly to
be destroyed when a rodent noticed the oversight and went for the pea still
attached to the young plant.
We pre- sprout most of our crops in seed trays in
the green house these days and plant out well established seedlings. One
advantage of this is that you can clean up a plot with the hoe and immediately
plant after.
However, it is possible to sow in the open and then
cover oat seed with compost, straw, wood shavings or even black plastic
(the last one you need to remove quickly once germination gets
going.)
john
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Re: [Livingontheland] Food: Why We Waste So Much
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Re: [Livingontheland] Food: Why We Waste So Much,
paul, 10/19/2010
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[Livingontheland] cover crop field day,
Ken Hargesheimer, 10/19/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] cover crop field day,
Harvey Ussery, 10/20/2010
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[Livingontheland] covercrop article?,
moon, 10/21/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] covercrop article?, Harvey Ussery, 10/21/2010
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[Livingontheland] Oats as a crop?,
Debbie McDonald, 10/21/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] Oats as a crop?, Aliza Vanderlip, 10/21/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] Oats as a crop?,
Tradingpost, 10/22/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] Oats as a crop?, Debbie McDonald, 10/22/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] Oats as a crop?, Harvey Ussery, 10/23/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] Oats as a crop?, John D'hondt, 10/22/2010
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[Livingontheland] covercrop article?,
moon, 10/21/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] cover crop field day,
Harvey Ussery, 10/20/2010
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[Livingontheland] cover crop field day,
Ken Hargesheimer, 10/19/2010
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Re: [Livingontheland] Food: Why We Waste So Much,
paul, 10/19/2010
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