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Joop Corbin - swomp wrote:
Now, i dont know how far the dripwater will go, probably not far. So i dont know how wide your beds (rows) can be. But i bet that your rows can be wider than you thought, specially using several plant species in a row, because your soil has less evaporation due to the covering of earth... specially using hugelbeds.
barefooter wrote:
I'm all for biodiversity, but in this case where your onions need to dry down in the field for 2 weeks, I don't see what else you could plant.
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barefooter wrote:
Increased plant density increases water use, because the water lost through transpiration exceeds the water lost through evaporation from the soils surface. The plants are actively drawing water out of the soil and then loosing some of it from transpiration as compared to just evaporation from the bare earth. You've effectively increased your surface area for evaporation (transpiration just being plant based evaporation) so water use will rise.
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barefooter wrote:
I'm all for biodiversity, but in this case where your onions need to dry down in the field for 2 weeks, I don't see what else you could plant.
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Ludi wrote:
I don't think it's an "either/or" situation. There's no reason one can't have a lot of annuals in a permaculture situation, especially if we want to eat what most of us are used to eating, annual vegetables. Personally I'm including lots of both annuals and perennials in my plantings. There are probably going to be a lot of beds I keep just for annuals, because it is inconvenient to work around perennials.
The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings. - Masanobu Fukuoka
I've often wondered if it wouldn't be easier to interplant annuals in our (2 acre) woodland, taking advantage of the clearings to give them access to sunlight. In that woodland there is naturally huge amounts of humus, leaf debris, and the soil is in far better health and thicker topsoil than in the open field areas (where I dug an annual bed last year). Yes, it's farther from the house but I walk our trails in the woods pretty much every day so it wouldn't be a chore to pick up some dinner along the way.
Digging a bed by hand in our rocky soil (we don't have machinery) was damned hard work, and I ended up with sunken beds by the time the rocks and boulders had been removed, so now have to truck in topsoil and manure to fill them up. Then will have to wait until everything is growing around it and my guilds are complete. Meanwhile I've got two acres of woods full of Good Things.
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