Farming

[bellinghman]

This evening, we should finish the planting that we started last Saturday.

On Saturday, we planted 40 strawberry plants (and surrounded them with rare breed bull manure), 80 tomatoes of two varieties, 160 cauliflours, and about 60 shallots. We also got netting over the strawberries and tomatoes.

Today, Brussels sprouts and beans.

Comments

[clanwilliam.livejournal.com]

Rare breed bullshit? Does it make a difference?

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

I doubt it. It happens to be what's conveniently available from a few hundred metres away, and it is organically traceable.

We're hoping for some tiger crap next, though that'd have to come, oh, nearly 9 kilometres.

[jon-a-five.livejournal.com]

Is "organically traceable" a polite way of saying "smelly"?

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Not exactly.

The area of the Home Farm (of which we rent 2 acres) is under Soil Association rules, with an Organic Certification pending once conversion is complete. This means that what we do will also have to operate under SA rules, or spoil the party for the rest of the farm. So making sure that manure that is used is also validly sourced is actually quite important.