Jeff Lam wwoofing in the UK Part 2.2: Organic Farming Techniques
I am producing a series of videos on wwoofing in the UK, focussing on the volunteering and organic farming aspects of wwoofing. Here I look at four organic farming techniques used at a community based in Suffolk. WWOOF stands for Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms WWOOF UK www.wwoof.org.uk WWOOF Worldwide http (includes links to WWOOF organisations in other countries)
this community has three LARGE patches, so space is not an issue. However, perhaps I might try this in mum’s garden!
hello themightyscythe. Thanks for your feedback. In that community, the person responsible for a crop decides how their crop is grown. So one individual does indeed mulch, while others believe that mulching doesn’t allow insect life etc. to take place.
I personally am a bit of a rookie, but now that you mention it, I don’t think I’ve seen it anywhere else. Possibly might be because they have to be frugal with the compost, as there are a LOT of vegetables to grow…
Hope im not boring everyone, but my method is in autumn to put all the compost on the land where the spuds go in the spring, when the spuds are harvested, lime the ground, sow dwarf peas or beans , harvest these early summer THEN plant yer broccolli etc .
Brussels and purple sprouting are big plants that stay in the ground all winter so i inter plant these with summer cabbage which come to harvest late summer thus saving a bit of space
As far as i can tell weeds are EVERYONES biggest problem . i use a raised bed , no dig technique with which i am pleased , i mulch every piece of ground i can with iether sheeps fleece , compost or plastic even old carpet , after 5 years i am just getting on top.
BTW Planting brocolli staight into holes you have just “composted” is not a method many books would recomend But hey , if it works then go with it !!