Le Potager du Sloth: Gardening without fatigue more than Bio

[Did67]

... but otherwise did you get bleached leaves? even if they were not huge because the goal was this one

Yes of course. Simply, they were a little scattered. The roots, already small, in addition, give several shoots all around, because I made the mistake of cutting the leaves before burying ...

[Did67]

For all that is "bulb" frankly I do not think there will be a problem.

I just went to see my garlic planted in the tall grass (it's almost untraceable this trellis of grass, in addition never cut, it's like a mini Amazon jungle) absolutely no soucy.

I will take a picture, they are just maybe a little less developed than those of hay and still a little less than those of the bare ground (the best disposed for their culture in "theory")

I do not think onions will be a problem ...

It will be different from a direct sowing but I will try ...

The objective is to quantify all of this a bit. On the one hand we "win" the hay, the work of spreading it. We "take advantage" of photosynthesis on the surface in question ... But on the other hand, of course, we do not have the contributions of the elements provided by the hay. And there is competition for the light ...

[Did67]

Photo of dandelions (taken today 18 April):

[Did67]

Some other pictures taken today (in the greenhouse):

Winter salads, transplanted in the fall, are in great shape and pomment. Soil temperature is now 16 ° and nitrification works (the color is darker green).

On the one hand, I stayed in bare soil (the hay was digested and I did not reload before transplanting); on the other, it is under a thick layer of hay, with a furrow ... The bare part has been "scratched", to clean and decompact a little ...

We cannot compare, they are not the same transplantings (so it is not a comparison "all things being equal").

Note, on the last, the damage of the slugs: 3 medium slugs, "orange" type, found under this single foot!

[Did67]

Photos of seedlings in the greenhouse (18 April 2018)

Carrots (Touchon)

Batavia lettuce

Peas :

General view: in the foreground, on the right, are discharges of celery branches (severely ravaged by the - 13,5 ° C recorded in February, which have reworked and will probably go to seed); on the left, it is a transplanting of parsley (made at home, beginning of March and transplanted here a fortnight ago).

[Did67]

Pictures outside the greenhouse (18 April)

Onions transplanted during March are now well out; shallots too:

Sowing in pots is more or less successful (linked to "defects" of seeds - open or even expired bags). The first chassis is the one equipped with the heating resistor, which worked in "safety" but would not have been necessary this year (until then!)

On the "shrubs" side, it's the explosion:

The "berries of May" (camerisier or Lonicera kamtchatika) has already bloomed (it goes quickly, a day or two) ...

This Eryngium (blue thistle), inadvertently buried under the hay, in good perennial, found the way towards the light:

The cabbages are about to bloom (probably tomorrow!):

Rhubarb and deliveries resume:

[Adrien (ex-nico239)]

Beautiful panorama ...

It has already been found miraculous that our Livêche is reborn ....
As suddenly it seems vivacious ...
How does it multiply?

Well it's more for Ms. because me the flavors of bouillon cube

I bought 10 replanted raspberry feet ... I do not know when, still, they start.

They are 30 groin cm, shaded part at the edge of the grove, feet in a mixture of straw and oak leaves ...
For now RAS but I may stress with that ... and ask you regularly stuff ...
Level watering holds, a priori it's greedy not?

The cabbages, if I understand correctly, they spent the winter outside without any trouble?
What variety?

Ah thin Eryngium must I get: natural sprout or you sown them at a time?

[machouette71]

Hello everybody

News on this forum and beginner both in gardening and phenoculture here about two months that I read you and informs me with the videos.
My cover is in place recently (March) because I discovered the method at the beginning of the year.
I told myself that to accelerate the warming of the soil we could put up a black tarp over the hay for 3 weeks. Until mid May. Could this be detrimental to the life of the soil? Because of the temperature under canvas?

Thank you and sorry if the question has already been asked. Good sunny day.

Caroline

[Did67]

Beautiful panorama ...

It has already been found miraculous that our Livêche is reborn ....
As suddenly it seems vivacious ...
How does it multiply?

Well it's more for Ms. because me the flavors of bouillon cube

I bought 10 replanted raspberry feet ... I do not know when, still, they start.

They are 30 groin cm, shaded part at the edge of the grove, feet in a mixture of straw and oak leaves ...
For now RAS but I may stress with that ... and ask you regularly stuff ...
Level watering holds, a priori it's greedy not?

The cabbages, if I understand correctly, they spent the winter outside without any trouble?
What variety?

Ah thin Eryngium must I get: natural sprout or you sown them at a time?

1) Lovage: initially a purchased "bucket"; then collecting seeds and sowing ...

2) Raspberries, if they are "uplifting" (= almost continuous production), are sensitive to drought (they make shallow roots). The flowers abort as soon as it is hot and dry. Production stops. So yes, you have to water them.

The others, strictly speaking, unless they threaten to protect you, you can leave them: they make a big production, late spring / early summer. Drought does not affect them too much ...

3) Yes. These cabbages spent the winter outside (kale "kale", "1 head" cabbage, Siberian cabbage) ... Without any precaution. As besides the "seed onions" (onions "forgotten" during the harvest; found when unrolling the hay; grouped in two lines to have them in the same place; they are in the second year and will go to seed. ..

[Did67]

Hello everybody

News on this forum and beginner both in gardening and phenoculture here about two months that I read you and informs me with the videos.
My cover is in place recently (March) because I discovered the method at the beginning of the year.
I told myself that to accelerate the warming of the soil we could put up a black tarp over the hay for 3 weeks. Until mid May. Could this be detrimental to the life of the soil? Because of the temperature under canvas?

Thank you and sorry if the question has already been asked. Good sunny day.

Caroline

It's a "tactic" that I envisioned. But still not executed !!!

The major downside is the slowing down of air circulation, in my opinion ... If the hay layer is thick enough, I think it will "dab" the overheating ...