[Edit the 11.12.2016] A summary of this thread - become very long - is online on another thread:
agriculture / the-garden-of-the-lazy-summary-t15042.html
The direct link to the Excel file: https://framacalc.org/4swDi7EPa1
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Go on another thread, 1360 gently reminded me that some expected returns. It motivated me.
State flu today, no strength to act, then a little time to fight with the computer - which, as you know, is not my area of excellence !!!!
So, listening to old Cohen's "Olds ideas" [which proves that you can age well and "find yourself"] ...
The photos above are all in the same part of my garden, which I recall from the past; it is only part of my "expés" that we will call, to find your way around, the "hay" experiment:
1) in living memory, it was a natural meadow. It is more of a dry meadow, at the top of the slope, facing south-west, so the sun "hits" quite a bit; shallow soil - at spade depth, you hit pebbles ...
It is located 340 m. It was therefore about to 10 15 days behind the plain of Alsace.
2) July 2013, + mowing hay harvest (a farmer)
3) August 2013: recovery of round bales of hay bad, held on the grass began to push; Double thickness before compaction, it should do about 30 cm hay ... The area you'll see (about 60 m²) was covered with a large round ball
Winter is spent on it. Doing nothing, of course.
So everything I realize here is played from this spring, early without NO TILLAGE. NI BECHE. OR PICK !!!
A) Planting
It is well known (and this is scientifically supported) that fresh, decaying organic matter has an anti-germination effect. At least if it is woody material (wood, brushwood ...; to be checked for cellulosic material). This is what explains, with the absence of light, that this spring, everything is "clean" [well almost, we will come back to it!]
So I thought about sowing in rows after having "opened" the hay, which is now packed (more than a few cms thick), only on the width necessary for sowing and emergence: about 2 cm wide (or "3 fingers").
So I stretched a measuring line [Update: today I cut along a board, which holds and "wedges" the hay]. And released the big kitchen knife. [Updated 2015: I now use a bread knife with notches ; hay is cut much more easily
To rule a little better, and avoid close contact between the decaying matter and my seedlings, I used a small hand claw 3 teeth and went behind:
[Update 2015: there is less weed the narrower the groove; So in the meantime I have perfected the system: instead of cutting a groove and opening with the "3 teeth", I cut two equidistant grooves of 3 cm maximum; I gently remove the hay without damaging the clean cutting edge; I tightened the two rear tines, so that they pass in the furrow without moving the hay which remained in place between the rows; I spread ; I go back; I tamp if the earth is dry - never if it is wet, so as not to "concrete"!]
Especially do not put hay on the sown furrows, of course, since it is this coverage that blocks the germination of weed! This would block the same way the lifting of vegetables planted.
So now, with a board, pruning shears and a wheelbarrow, my only garden tools:
I then sown. And as I experience, I covered thinly (about 1 cm) in two ways:
- Commercial potting soil (with two bags 7 or 8 euros, I made half a dozen lines / m length about 10
- The land of molehills, collected (as enjoy their work, it is a good loose soil)
[Updated end 2015: I used neither one nor the other; the soil is an unnecessary expense - the money, it is also the work: it is the result of time spent working under job! -; Earth molehills generates excessive exercise of weeds; the best is to sow directly into the ground as it is; I do not do that!
The result, photographed date:
Edit by Remundo 13 / 07 / 2016
Changing the title:
"Gardening more than organic in direct sowing without fatigue?" BECOMES "Le Potager du Laesseux: Gardening more than organic without fatigue "
