Living Mulch Part 2

Living Mulch

Category:

Education

Tags:

• tillage
• mulch

[palui]

is the compaction of the soil from the tractor a problem?

[eOrganic]

The compaction is lessened by having the living mulch. Tractors always cause some compaction in farming systems.

[taviyo]

This has really opened up my eyes to gardening. I am about to change the way I have been gardening for the past 15 years. It makes so much sense. Bringing what we do in the compost bin out to the plants. Thanks.

[eOrganic]

I agree, keeping it in the field, making it part of the rotation so to speak.

[whowantsit456]

I would really like for someone to come over to our side of the Rockies and see if you can get a garden to grow that well over here. I am building fences 8 feet high with wind breakers on them to help break up the wind. Last year the wind just ate our plants, the plants looked like helicopter blades when they came up, and then the garden died due to the wind.

[HomesteadAcres]

Thank you for these vids! I'm going to start using this method next year. I was wondering how do you think it would work for growing potatoes? Since they normally need to be hilled. Depending on the year, we grow between 1000 and 3000 pounds of potatoes a year. The rows are a tillers width apart. But you couldn't hill them if you used the black plastic. I'd love any suggestions! :)

[braves3100]

why is this woman wearing rubber gloves

[pamelawalker1]

Where did you get the mower?

[itisphoto]

Nice

[ZachreyCA]

So Great!!!

Will be showing this to the owner of the farm fer sure! I actually started something similar to this in a 1.5 acre glass greenhouse. But with all the snow here in Vancouver followed by rain, the poor greenhouse collapsed. Imagine 1.5 acres of broken shards of glass!

We mowed and bagged the grass in between beds and poured it on the weeds. It knocked down weeds but I don't think we were producing enough grass clippings to do the job. Too bad we'll never see the results.