30/10/2023
Good things coming this spring. Get your blooms from these folks!
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Experimenting with cover crops. Left to right: Winter rye, oats, tillage radish, then two rows of tillage radish and oats mixed.
There's nothing more satisfying seeing green sprouts when it's 34 degrees outside and everything is dead.
But more important than their lovely hue, these sprouts will help nourish the soil, as well as help with erosion.
We are trying these crops in our small kitchen garden, which is 100% no till, a concept we will be slowly incorporating into the 1/4‐acre flower patch as we get a handle on w**d suppression of the former pasture.
No till farming pays homage to the biome of the soil, which research is showing benefits tremendously from leaving it as undisturbed as possible (no till). Think of the rich soil in a forest as an example.
These plants will die off with winter temps (or be terminated in the spring), and their roots will add to the biomass below the surface. The plant material above the surface will decay and add nutrients, like compost.