= 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