Ben Brand
Well-Known Member
Like me, I believe the majority of the members growing their own tobacco has a space problem.
I'm sure all of us would like to grow rotating ( benificial to the soil) crops, but what to do if you just don't have the space (like me)
I will have to use the same beds for ( hopefully) many years to come.
Now for the question, how do we do it?
Do we just plant, year after year, without trying to get some goodness back into the soil, and if ( like me) we want to put some goodness back, what do we use?? Compost, manure or maybe both? And how much, how long before we plant again, fermmented, unfermented?
Do we turn the soil over ( in my case with a garden fork) or do we adopt the no till theory?
There are lots of other factors that I didn't even mention that can happen in soil that isn't rested/ rotated,, blankshank, nematodes, undesolved fertilisers etc.
If there are some members who has done this, how did you solve these problems, and what are your experiances ( good or bad) on soil that's gets hammered year in and year our.
Ben
I'm sure all of us would like to grow rotating ( benificial to the soil) crops, but what to do if you just don't have the space (like me)
I will have to use the same beds for ( hopefully) many years to come.
Now for the question, how do we do it?
Do we just plant, year after year, without trying to get some goodness back into the soil, and if ( like me) we want to put some goodness back, what do we use?? Compost, manure or maybe both? And how much, how long before we plant again, fermmented, unfermented?
Do we turn the soil over ( in my case with a garden fork) or do we adopt the no till theory?
There are lots of other factors that I didn't even mention that can happen in soil that isn't rested/ rotated,, blankshank, nematodes, undesolved fertilisers etc.
If there are some members who has done this, how did you solve these problems, and what are your experiances ( good or bad) on soil that's gets hammered year in and year our.
Ben