Did67 wrote:]
Hello DIdier,
can you explain when we need to cover the ground before or after winter?
please
Did67 wrote:]
emilio57 wrote:Good evening,
Half spetembre. We will cut a few cm, to leave in place the feet of sunflowers and tomatoes to fix nitrogen to the soil during the winter. For rising beans, does it work as well?
The empty plots will be sown with winter vegetables or green manure (sunflower for now).
For the OM, we therefore have hay, straw, mowing grass and we will recover the leaves of trees as soon as they fall.
I understood on the one hand, the interest of the cover against weeds, but also to nourish the ground. It is just the moment which escapes me.
All for the hay, according to the vegetable garden of the sloth, I must reread in more detail, but I did not understand when was the ideal period to have all the benefit of phenoculture, (page 237 it is indicated not to put the hay too early. I understand the arguments cited but then, "putting it too late, at the end of winter" is not a good idea either "
Here, I think therefore to cover and prepare the plots for next year, with straw, grass and leaves.
But hay, when would it be optimal?
Thank you
Ahmed wrote:It is enough to know that what is sought with hay is a durable cover during the growing season and a retention of the organic matter it contains until the date of these crops. This therefore excludes an intake in early autumn, since the bacteria are active at this time and would begin to degrade the hay and therefore to release nutrients which will be leached in pure loss (since there is no active vegetation to enjoy it). At the end of autumn, the optimal conditions for spreading are in place.
Once we understand (this is not an indirect criticism!) The mechanisms involved, it is possible to go beyond the "recipe" aspect which is necessarily reductive and does not allow (when it is judicious!) to adapt only to very specific cases, and this in a mechanical way which does not conform to the functioning of living organisms (weather conditions have a great influence and such advice will or will not be adapted according to its variations) ...
emilio57 wrote:Half spetembre. We will cut a few cm, to leave in place the feet of sunflowers and tomatoes to fix nitrogen to the soil during the winter. For rising beans, does it work as well?
The empty plots will be sown with winter vegetables or green manure (sunflower for now).
emilio57 wrote:
green manure (sunflower for now).
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