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Garden Info:
We have raised most of our own food for forty years. Twenty at Stony Run. We have gradually shifted from “traditional” row crops with fertilizer to a no-dig polyculture a la permaculture principles. Spring crops do well here, summer crops are more of a struggle. The season sometimes ends abruptly before the winter squash are ready. Our best achievement is the poultry moat and letting the poultry into the garden in winter — holds down the slugs and snails and other pest eggs.
Plants of the same variety seem to “talk” to one another and require company. But that does not need to imply monoculture. Groups of three mixed with other groups of three reduces competition for the same nutrients and hides plants from predators reasonably well. If you are in an area where you will benefit from a straw mulch, USE ENOUGH. Water at night if you can — at the bases of plants rather than all over them.
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