How to Grow More Vegetables

with a spading fork and remove any weeds. Spread a ½-inch layer of compost including 50% soil over the entire area to be dug (a ...

Spread a ½-inch layer of compost including 50% soil on the loosened soil in the first trench. Thoroughly mix the compost placed ...

Thoroughly mix in the compost on the lower second trench 12 inches deep. Continue the complete texturizing double-digging proce ...

No digging board is used. The soil will be loosened three-quarters as deep as in the double-dig. Continue U-barring until the b ...

The U-bar. Remember that applying compost from outside the garden is unsustainable. The amounts needed for applying multiple lay ...

Compost applications will help very sandy or clayey soils to have better structure. However, sometimes food- growers decide to a ...

Soil in the path is subject to compaction; soil in the bed remains loose. One simple way to determine whether our soil has good ...

produced by the plants help to loosen a clay soil and improve a sandy soil.^1 The goal is to create a sumptuous “living sponge c ...

fertilized, planted, weeded, and harvested from each side with relative ease, and insects can be controlled without walking on t ...

Good soil preparation makes GROW BIOINTENSIVE fertility possible—up to 4 times the productivity per unit of area! ...

Try not to step on the growing beds once they have been prepared. To do so compacts the soil and makes it more di,cult for the p ...

microbiotic life and plants will stay alive. The bed should be planted as soon as possible so the plants can take advantage of t ...

SOIL STRUCTURE We currently re-prepare the soil after each crop, except for autumn compost crops. Some people prefer to do this ...

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S 2 SUSTAINABILITY GOAL: Grow and maintain sustainable soil fertility with sufficient humus in the soil while creating thriving ...

food. When we purchase food that has been grown with less sustainable practices, these are the types of practice we are encourag ...

pesticides are created in part from petroleum, which also fuels tractors, processing machinery, and transport vehicles. While or ...

all of the nutrients that the crop contained and, depending on the crops that are grown, enough humus to replenish the soil’s su ...

on the nutrients-decient soil will not contain the decient nutrients, and the soil will still be unbalanced even after the cur ...

naturally to the mini-farm through rainfall, wind, the breakdown of the soil’s parental rock material, and the upsoaking of grou ...