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Hey Mick T. check this out (covers are crimped)(updated)
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<blockquote data-quote="WTM" data-source="post: 4455193" data-attributes="member: 6230"><p>sounds like you have a plan. one tip on the leaves, they need to be cut up and not put in whole. when i add compost to the garden i also add a little lime or wood ashes as well. if you already have good soil texture go easy on the brown carbon. good soil should look kind of like a cake brownie: dark and crumbly. you should be able to take a little moistened soil, form it into a ball and it should break apart fairly easily when tossed onto hard ground. if it doesnt break apart easily then its clay based and could use some brown type mulch. if its hard to make a ball or breaks apart in your hand then its too loamy and could use some finished compost. by using the green cover crops you will see that you will need to add very little, if any, finished compost.</p><p></p><p>another thing that i do, as far as spring crops, ie lettuce, radishes, cabbage, brocolli, onions, is that i do not plant a cover crop in the areas that i will be planting those. what i do, in the fall, i make my beds/rows, add a little compost to them and then i cover that bed with brown cover. i use several inches of wheat straw but any brown biomass will work. then in march i pull just enough of the wheat straw back to plant my transplants, seeds and onion sets. by doing this, my spring bed is ready to plant and i dont have to wait until the ground is dry enough to work and that area will be premulched and weed free. you never want to work wet soil, if you do you will be dealing with clods all year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WTM, post: 4455193, member: 6230"] sounds like you have a plan. one tip on the leaves, they need to be cut up and not put in whole. when i add compost to the garden i also add a little lime or wood ashes as well. if you already have good soil texture go easy on the brown carbon. good soil should look kind of like a cake brownie: dark and crumbly. you should be able to take a little moistened soil, form it into a ball and it should break apart fairly easily when tossed onto hard ground. if it doesnt break apart easily then its clay based and could use some brown type mulch. if its hard to make a ball or breaks apart in your hand then its too loamy and could use some finished compost. by using the green cover crops you will see that you will need to add very little, if any, finished compost. another thing that i do, as far as spring crops, ie lettuce, radishes, cabbage, brocolli, onions, is that i do not plant a cover crop in the areas that i will be planting those. what i do, in the fall, i make my beds/rows, add a little compost to them and then i cover that bed with brown cover. i use several inches of wheat straw but any brown biomass will work. then in march i pull just enough of the wheat straw back to plant my transplants, seeds and onion sets. by doing this, my spring bed is ready to plant and i dont have to wait until the ground is dry enough to work and that area will be premulched and weed free. you never want to work wet soil, if you do you will be dealing with clods all year. [/QUOTE]
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