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Mutton wrote: |
I think you can grow without manure providing you do a lot of composting, perhaps have comfrey to compost etc. However cannot be as intensive as with manure, blood and bone meal, fishmeal or artificial fertilizers. |
You'd need a vast amount of compost to grow fruit and veg on a decent scale. We have 14 2m by 4m beds, a half acre field, a quarter acre field, a quarter acre of soft fruit and several apple trees.
We put seven cubic metres of well rotted muck and compost on those every year. It's barely enough, even allowing for the rotations. And that's the result of 10-25 pigs at any given time, 50 chickens, grass clippings from the "lawn" around the houses plus off the tracks, and all the garden clippings, veg peelings, etc.
Every fourth year, I get in several cubic metres of well-rotted horse muck to top things up even further.
There's no way we could fertilise our crops with just vegetable matter taken from around the croft. |
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