Re: crop rotation
- To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: crop rotation
- From: M* M*
- Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:07:10 -0700 (PDT)
Thanks for the re, I keep adding more and more cow manure
alright, and it's great for the soil. I think what it does
for the texture of the soil is even better than the
firtilizing effect, making it spongier, and holds the water
better. It's very dry here, and our well has trouble
keeping up untill the rainy season starts.
I'll probably go ahead and add the AG to the rotation.
I've set up our rotation where I really ammend one section
each year, with the others getting less. The AG is now the
section that gets fed heavily (it used to be the tomatos,
sorry wife). The rotations also help to keep bugs and
disease down, they no more get established and their food
source goes somewhere else in the garden. Our problem is we
grow too many vining plants, tomatos, potatos, mellons,
cukes, and now AGs. So we end up with vines following vines
in the rotation. We do grow beans, I discovered some leaks
in the waterline, and went to drip irrigation, so we'll try
growing corn next year with the extra water. We're also
going to grow more onions and garlics, maybe enough to get
them into the rotation, and not just sqeezing them in here
and there.
I may also add a soil builder to the rotation, getting
most of the ammendments, a cover crop, but taking nothing
out of that patch. I'll probably put it in front of the AG
in the rotation since it's the heaviest feeder.
I've babbled enough on this, I'll let everyone know how
it works out next year.
===
Good fishing!
Matt Moore
Visit my Severum Page at:
http://www.virtualseeds.com/matt.html
_________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PUMPKINS
