Update for 22-05-22 21:15

botany/healthy_plot.wiki

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

botany/index.wiki

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 See [[high_farming]]
 
+== Land ==
+
+* [[healthy_plot]]
+
 == Plants ==
 
 * [[plant_families]]