Hello everyone
This is Miguel from Ecuador,I am very interested in letting my
plants to reseed by themselfs, and now my doughts are how to let
this occur naturally, because here there are not harsh winters
(there is not snow) and when the plants go to seed most of it will
be eaten by birds,so might it be better to make seedballs.??
Other question is how to do to obtain daikon seeds, I sow lots of
Daikon in the winter, in some places I put a clover crop, in others
not but I had the same results, I had a really good harvest, some
daikons weighted more than 2 kl, I let some daikon and they went to
seed, but close to them there were lots of mustard, wild radish, and
other wild brassicas, most of the in flower and with lots bees,
ladybugs,, pollinating them,so I thought that it was something
completly natural, in this way new species will born, but I want to
eat daikon not a mix of everything,how would be a way to get not
mixed seed in a natural way .???
Other thing that I´ve been wondering about is how to cultivate in
hilly land in a natural way, I am starting my natural farm in a
really hilly land, so I was thinking in making terraces, but to do
them I will need to move a lot of soil,to make earthen banks,
walls,and level the ground, might it be naturally to do this ???
allthough I don´t see other way to controll erosion, and retain
humidity, somebody has experience with this.???
Any advice will be helpfull
Thanks
--- In fukuoka_farming@yahoogroups.com, "poojyum" <poojyum@...>
wrote:
>
> Hello Steve,
>
> Thank you for suggestions.
>
> > If you put your seedlings in a row, they are prone to all
suffering
> > from the same fate. >
> I dont put seedlings in a row. I sow seed at random - here and
there.
>
> >If you put your seedlings in an area with no other
> > growing plants, they will be targeted by pests. If you plant
just
> >what
> > you need, that's not sharing with nature.
>
> >
> > If you put your seedlings in a mixed growing environment with
other
> > plants they are partially hidden. If you grow many more than you
> >need there will be some left for you. >
> My plot is full of so called 'weeds'. There was 1 area where I had
dug
> due to pressure from a fellow plot holder. I regret doing that. And
> that area doesnt have too many plants. Unfortunately in that area
my
> seedlings are thriving!
>
> I'm not planting only what I need. I dont even count how many
seeds I
> sow. I sow a lot. For example I sowed probably 50 broadbeans seeds
> here and there. Of them about 10 have come up and 3 are standing
> today. The 3 are eaten up here and there. I am happy for the 3 yes
but
> it seems they are there only because they have not been found by
the
> 'pests' yet!
>
> >If you plant from seedballs they will
> > be protected until they get started. >
> With seedballs I have had very poor result. Probably its not the
right
> clay I dont know. I picked up clay from a molehill along the
tracks I
> cycle thru. It seemed soft, natural & local. I had 1 spinach, a
couple
> lettuce from seedballs.
>
> >If you plant into a standing crop
> > and cut the crop after yours gets started they will take off
from the
> > increase in light and space. If you put the litter from that
cut crop
> > back over your plants as mulch they will be additionally
protected.
>
> When I sow a seed, I cut back on the grasses/'weeds' a bit & sow.
If I
> was transplanting a seedling, I cut back and as you suggest put it
> back as mulch to hide them and to save some moisture.
>
> >
> > The trick is to plant the right plants at the right time
following the
> > right crop and cutting the overgrowth at the right time. Don't
expect
> > success every time and be prepared to have little success at
first and
> > more as you figure out what works for you. OK, this is hard
when you
> > have to wait a year between experiments and you are hoping to
eat your
> > plants after all that work.
> >
> > Fukuoka had a kitchen garden as well as the farming fields. I
suspect
> > he had the same problems.
> >
> > Steve
>
> Thank you for writing. I will keep experimenting.
>
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