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Next job: planting the onions and garlic.
Since the weather is good and there isn't much else to do, I may add a few further beds before frost sets in. Average first frost around here is mid-October, but there's no sign of any yet - night time temperatures haven't been lower than 5ºC, and mostly they've been much higher, as much as 13 to 15ºC.
Are you just planting the rye to improve the soil fertility or are you going to do something else with it too?
ReplyDeleteI'm not actually going to eat any of it, or use the stems for raffia-work or anything like that, but it does several useful things:
ReplyDelete- it prevents weeds taking over the bed while there's no food crop planted there.
- it keeps nutrients from being leached away, and prevents soil compaction, which heavy autumn/winter rain can do to bare soil
- when chopped up and dug in, it improves the nutrient-content of the soil, and also the soil structure.
Ah. Thought'd it'd be something like that. Fascinating stuff.
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