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.
No-Till Vegetable Trials: Let’s Talk No-Till Planting
As part of EFAO’s No-Till Vege …
No-Till Vegetable Trials: The Rapid Regeneration Trial
As part of EFAO’s No-Till Vegetable Trials, Ken Laing is looking at four treatments to compare different methods for rapid regeneration of soil health for vegetable production.
No-Till Vegetable Trials: The no-till transplanter
The no-till transplanter is an important tool in EFAO’s No-Till Vegetable Trials to show that no-till techniques can be successfully employed on a larger scale (>3 acre +) using machinery that is currently available.
EFAO’s Organic No-Till Vegetable Trials
Ken Laing of Orchard Hill Farm is working in cooperation with EFAO to trial a wide variety of no-till methods for organic vegetable production. We will be documenting the work in a series of blogs.