by Rajqawee » 14/10/21, 10:04
First frost this morning (it's early according to the locals).
Some remarks and observations (context; setting up a vegetable garden)
Choice of straw cover then mowing (because straw received before buying a mower!), Completed with "surface" composting (but under the mulch, for the aesthetic side. We lift, we dump, we say hello to which swarms and then we "close the hood")
The soil: a slightly clayey brunisol, old meadow.
The salads are starting to start again, I suspect that the start was difficult with a little hunger for nitrogen, but between the kitchen waste and the clippings that are starting to arrive, it starts to balance again compared to the straw.
Leeks and cabbages thrive, with minimal attack from slugs (I have lots and lots of birds in the field).
I take this opportunity to point out that as I had a little earthwork to do, I took topsoil (15T for 450 €, delivery included on site), and rather than working the slightest CM3 of soil, I simply reserved a little soil to carry out the first plantings: I take a leek, I put a small pile of earth, therefore on the old meadow, and then I plant my leek on this small pile of earth. It saved me from even making the first furrows with a pickaxe, I did everything directly on the ground (not even mowed! I hadn't.)
A few weeks later, the initial meadow begins to disappear under the canopy, and the earth is already much looser, I can make a hole for a lettuce with my fingers. The straw even begins to be attacked.
In summary, the ground cover brings the expected effects well, without any other intervention: it loosens up on its own. It blocks a good 80% of weeds (especially dandelions in my house). We can even, in reality, plant directly in the meadow, it also works ...
0 x
