Subject: [permaculture] Recent Reddit /r/OrganicFarming post I made about my garden beds.
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 17:22:37 -0400
Recent Reddit /r/OrganicFarming post I made:
I am market gardening now using hand tools, notill or minimum till and
raised beds. This is not how how I started out. I wanted to convert my red
silt loam to brown silt loam 16" deep. Here are details about the process I
followed using a John Deere 3020 70HP, New Holland skid loader, mountains
of quarry rock dusts and local cow manure plus commercial mineral and
nitrogenous natural soil amendments (rock phosphate, azomite, greensand,
etc.); implements: JD Cat#2 subsoiler, JD 3 bottom plow, spring tooth field
cultivator (an old Italian-made 7 shank), Howard Rotavator, Yeomans 3 shank
(26") plow, Roll-A-Cone hiller bedder (2 8' toolbars, 2 26" discs, 4 chisel
plow shanks, 3 small subsoiler shanks. This equipment and the land it
worked can be seen in these galleries; maybe viewable w/o Google login:
.....and forget rototillers, better to hand dig beds; you'll end up with
more productive garden space this way.
French intensive, biological, double-dug raised beds in systems of gardens
located on grade with controlled drainage and water conservation, on slopes
using terraced raised beds; direct excess water flow to impoundments with
aquatic plants and animals for wildlife habitat.
[permaculture] Recent Reddit /r/OrganicFarming post I made about my garden beds.,
Lawrence London, 10/03/2013