Hi Tyler,
Thanks for your response.
The chapter about composting is quite an interesting one, as they mention how lately (I am reading the 9th edition) they have been experimenting with a more of a 40ish to 1 ratio of carbon/nitrogen, which in theory makes the composting a bit slower, but they say the benefits and the product is worth it. This is fine, but what surprises me is the large amounts of water anyway, although according to their numbers they save a lot compared to other
gardening approaches.
In terms of the digging damaging the soil, from what I can see in the book, Jeavons says that the idea is to create a good quality soil with double digging, and once that is achieved, then move on to no-digging techniques and building soil on top, but I am not sure how long that process takes!
I have not done any biointensive
gardening myself, I am planning to move to the country side next year after summer and then get a smallish parcel where hopefully I can start. I am a total newbie, but the idea is to combine
permaculture - which I expect to use as a guidance when designing the whole parcel - with biointensive - which I was thinking of using for the crops area, to maximise the space that I will have and be able to use more for the permaculture/perennial side than to growing annual veggie crops -.
Cheers