Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>]

On 11/21/2010 09:46 AM, mobius wrote:
> *We have chickens, so that helps.
> *

There are some great ways to use chickens as partners in 
gardening--insect control, making compost, tilling in cover crops. That 
will be a major focus in the book I'm writing, out sometime next year.


> *I need to try and train the winter squash to radiate out of the 
> garden (it's round) and not attack the tomatoes, if that's even possible.
> *

Definitely possible, though you have to "keep after them." A combination 
of gently picking up the growing ends of the vines and "re-aiming" them 
in the direction you prefer-- and simply cutting off that growing end 
(just past a node--don't leave a "stub").

Good luck.

~Harvey


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Harvey in northern Va
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My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year by 
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