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Gallery
Please click on a thumbnail below to bring up a larger picture and more information.Garden views at Lower Farm
Bottom Garden in June 2008.
Same view in October 2008.
Top field in mid September 2008.
Orchard in July 2008.
Clearing ground without digging
Clearing grass without digging.
Squashes growing.
Squashes ready to harvest.
Mulching pasture.
Potatoes emerging.
Ready for planting.
Late June.
Mid July.
Lady Balfour Potatoes.
After potato harvest.
Oriental leaves.
Mid September.
Many harvests of leaves off the same plants
Bergamo and Chartwell lettuce.
Late July.
August.
Mid September.
Grenoble Red lettuces.
Endive Bubikopf.
Summer endive.
Module/Plug Plants
Onion and beetroot.
Salad plants in pots.
Winter Salads
Lettuce and oriental leaves.
Harvesting in April.
Grenoble Red lettuce.
Winter Purslane.
Endive "Markant".
Chicories
Treviso Tardiva in January.
Palla Rossa "Agena", January 29th - outside.
Palla Rossa "Agena", January 29th - outside.
Grumola Verde in January.
Dig v. No Dig Experiment
In March 2007 I created four new beds in a grass pasture, between newly planted
apple maidens.
Six inches (15cm) of horse manure and compost were added to each one. In the undug beds it was laid on top to smother the grass, in the dug beds it was added underneath the inverted turves.
In winter 2007/8 the dug beds were re-dug and 2” (5cm) of horse manure or compost were incorporated, while the same amount of organic matter was added to the surface of the undug beds. I am recording all harvests. Cropping information to be posted in December 2008.
March 2007.
Four beds created.
June 2007
June 2007
September 2007
November 2007
April 2008.
May/June 2008.
October 2008.
Other
Deleafed tomatoes.