No-Till
No-Till Vegetable Trials: No-Till Garlic with Mechanized Planting
Encouraged by the success of hand planted no-till garlic into winter killed sorghum-sudangrass this past season, read about how Ken tried to mechanize the process using a no-till transplanter for their 2021 crop.
No-till fall broccoli in northern Ontario
Read and watch Ryan Spence and Isabelle Spence-Legault’s farmer-led research trial where they tested whether a crimped cover crop of rye and hairy vetch reduced tillage, cultivation and irrigation for their fall broccoli crop in northern Ontario.
No-Till Vegetable Trials: Winter squash
Growing cover crops so that they provide enough residue to suppress weeds for organic vegetable production requires planning!
No-Till Vegetable Trials: High residue cover crops
Growing cover crops so that they provide enough residue to suppress weeds for organic vegetable production requires planning!
No-Till Vegetable Trials: No-Till Garlic
For the no-till garlic demonstration that is part of EFAO’s No-Till Vegetable Trials, Ken Laing planted garlic on November 1, 2019 into a frost-killed cover crop of sorghum-sudangrass.