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Wednesday, 29 April 2020

Next years potatoes

Last years potatoes where a big experiment. We planted them into sheet mulched straw.

After harvest the potato patch was converted into a diverse cover crop. The seed were coated in a vermicast slurry and broadcast.
Buckwheat, corn, sorgum, sunflowers, oats, wheat, linseed, kale, spinach, fennel, clovers, phacellia, blue lupin, broadbeans.....
Come spring this will be mulched and corn planted into another diverse mix.

This year the potato experiment continues...
We have made a big compost windrow next to the cover crop and as we turn/move the compost we will sow a winter cover crop. At potato harvest time this will be mowed and potatoes planted in to cover crop an finished compost.