To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: RE: [permaculture] Question about yields
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:12:52 +0100
Forgive me for insist, but I know you can not tell me how much I'll get,
that's why I asked you what where YOUR actual yields, but I think I didn't
make myslef understood.
The data I've send to you (the map and the type of land) was only in
response to a message.
To Michael Snow, I have no more info about David Blume's farm, but if I find
something I'll make you know (hope you do the same).
Thank you for your kind responses.
I'll try to give you some details. I live in Madrid, in the center of Spain.
> Are you in a rocky environment, or do you have deep, fertile soil?
It is a conventionally fertilised soil (suposely deep and fertile "enough"
acordingly conventional growers), irrigated from a near river trhough a
channel (you must ask for water every time you need it).
> What is your rainfall pattern throughout the year?
It s a continental climate (dry and hot summers and wet and cold winters),
but as already said, I can irrigate when necesary (all the surroundings are
comercially and conventionally market gardens, but very few os them are
biological or ecological)
> What crops do you find suited to your conditions?
>Potatos, corn and garden vegetables? Have you tried cut flowers for the
>floral trade?
I'll try a wide variety of them, including cut flowers.
>Are you close enough to New York City to truck your crops in?
Well, not indeed :-) but I hope Madrid will be a good substitute (3 millions
people at 30 Km).
>And do you use mechanized equipment or just garden with hand tools?
Only hand tools, and the land is 9800 square meters, or just a bit less than
2,5 acres at 10 minutes car or 30 minutes bike from my home because I didn't
find anything closer.
I am thinking where to build a wood house/greenhouse/henhouse and where to
locate the rest of things. My question is where to locate it, close to the
way, in the middle or at the bottom of it.