Did67 wrote:machouette71 wrote: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 ...
the weather is nice and I found a good book of the coup I make the gray matter walk as the book says
and I let myself think that phenoculture is a new approach to the garden, so should not we try to invent the new techniques that come with it?
and sowing techniques must be part of it
I go back to the kitchen garden since last year and so I also go back to the garden department of garden centers and last year I found that the range of transplanting plants had been expanded with beans for example ...
So for me in phenoculture the semi online must live his last days, open the furrow is work and as the hay is a haven for slugs in other, they nibble too easily what is put within their reach , while remaining hidden from predators
paysan.bio had told us about his sowing of carrots in a bucket and that he then placed where there was room, so it is not only possible but it would not become the norm? not that I think to cross very easily
as we have seen, the distances between the rows can be reduced, but since Didier planting my shallots (without measuring) the weather was fine, it was easy, I explained above that I had done the minimum, and the lines were done one after the other and then I said to myself "you told Didier that he could close ranks and you didn't do it" and yes the gesture being as anchored, my lines were separated almost like "before", I took more care for the onions
so with sowing in a bucket, we must be able to do without the cover and be able to transplant when the soil is warmer, and especially I will try again this year to transplant directly into the hay without necessarily reaching the ground