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29 lines
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= Healthy Plot =
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Tips to keeping a healthy plot of land
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1) avoid monoculture
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- Helps avoid disease organisms building up in soil
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2) Keep several animal species if possible
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- All dungs are different, put as much material back into the soil as
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possible
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- Fold animals across fields to break parasite life cycles
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3) Grow [[ley]]s, and plough them
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4) Green manuring
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- Grow some crop then plough it back into the land, or work land with discs
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5) Avoid ploughing too much or too deep
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- Do not bring subsoil to the surface
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- Chisel ploughing is good
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- act of cutting grooves in soil to help drainage and break hard
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subsurface layers
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6) Never keep soil bare, always be growing something
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- This keeps nutrients in the plants, they will return to the soil when they
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are ploughed/die
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7) Attend to drainage
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- waterlogged soil is almost always useless
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8) Observe the law of return
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- All crop and animal product should be returned to the soil
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- If anything is sold, then something of equal manurial value should
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be put back into the soil.
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- This applies to human excrement
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