From c71dc2f59c24661d42b40c4e53cab4e50c029822 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tyler Perkins Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 21:15:01 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update for 22-05-22 21:15 --- botany/healthy_plot.wiki | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ botany/index.wiki | 4 ++++ 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+) create mode 100644 botany/healthy_plot.wiki diff --git a/botany/healthy_plot.wiki b/botany/healthy_plot.wiki new file mode 100644 index 0000000..45e0c55 --- /dev/null +++ b/botany/healthy_plot.wiki @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ += 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 diff --git a/botany/index.wiki b/botany/index.wiki index 4081754..318d954 100644 --- a/botany/index.wiki +++ b/botany/index.wiki @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ Raising plants and stuff, for fun and profit See [[high_farming]] +== Land == + +* [[healthy_plot]] + == Plants == * [[plant_families]]