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Saturday, October 23, 2010
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Juha
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Finland/Estonia, Island of Saaremaa
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Preparing for the next season. We got 8 square meters of almost composted horse manure and went seaweed/kelp hunting with my wife. Lots of that has drifted with the storms ashore and we picked up some trailer loads. Some I mixed with the manure and will let it compost well during the winter. Some I will dry for making a liquid fertilizer for the next year and most we use as mulch to cover the patches.
It is all organic now, "no till". Both for the pumpkin growing and the garden. We saw the results of mulching this year with the garden and are believers. The only complaint with mulching (my wife thinks) is that it does not look that neat than "normal" gardens.
Anyways showeled a lot of manure to the patches already, as well as kelp (as it is drained by rains) and covered that with a thick layer of hay specially in the places were I intend to plant the pumpkins next years. I am pretty sure that the ground does not get much frozen under this layer. As soon as the snow melts away (mid March normally), I will take take the "cover" away, put some plastic on and let the sun heat up the transplanting area. I also got me a source of Mycorrizza, which is not so easy to get here. So next year I will try that as well. Thank you Don Langevin for showing the way in your all-organic book.
Sounds like a plan to me, but let's see next year.
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