Mustard seed green
manure, 2002.
Potatoes tested on all beds and the 12 small beds
consolidated into 6 large beds for crop rotation. First a quick
green manure crop of white mustard seed to improve the soil condition.
| Spring 2002 |
Potatoes, Desiree |
Potatoes, Lapp |
| Spring 2002 |
Potatoes, Charlotte,
Nicola |
Potatoes, Lapp |
| Spring 2002 |
Potatoes, Romano |
Potatoes, Lapp |
Organic environment
Great Nicola and Charlotte salad potatoes, improved
Lapp variety. Seed grown and plants set out. Original Lapptop
potato harvested!
| September
2002 |
Brassicas,
roots, spring onions |
Shrubs, Swiss
chard, seedbed |
| 3 October 2002 |
Sow Pak Choi
3 October 2002
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White mustard seed, cabbages, Chinese greens, strawberries
September 2002
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| September
2002 |
Onion sets |
White
mustard seed, turned. |
After the mustard seed is turned in the beds are sown
for overwintering.
Cabbages planted out.
29 September 2002, sow 136 onion
sets having turned in the mustard seed manure.
5 October, recheck potatoes
and return to store.
6 October 2002, sow 75 Taylor's
Silvermoon white overwintering onion sets and remaining natural
onion sets.
Sow three square metres of Thompson
& Morgan's Green Manure; forage rye, forage peas, tares and
Italian ryegrass.
Also sow three rows of turnips and seven
rows of Pak Choi in the next season potato bed.
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