Local Harvest Gardening

Hi there, It happened to me when planting squash directly on a pile of woodchip. You mentioned that you added compost directly on non decomposed mulch (leaves and some straw), if the roots are mainly interacting with non decomposed or in process of decomposition mulch, then your subtrate is basicall...

Indeed, I forgot the most obvious reason: lack of polinization. Broad beans are also a pain if you have an ant nest close by, ants love to transport (and take care of) aphids on the plants. They also transmit a black rot disease. This year I was fast on locating the ant nest and I did destroy it, th...

Dear all, As you can see in the photos, around 3/4 of the stem is fruitless (the flowers were there, but they never fructified), in addition you can observe a lot of rhizobia nodules in the root photo which I assume they happen because of a very low Nitrogen content in the soil, which would explain ...

Hi there, Every year I have a very good harvest of zucchini, however around this month I get moldy (white dust on top) and curly spotted leaves. I believe the reason could be bad ventilation and lack of soil nutrients (too much fruit production exhausting the soil). Do you have any better explanatio...

Dear all, I believe some materials are missing in module A: For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBpmP0Hfzwo Module A; Section 3.2; Vignette - Building a worm bin It is not present in Module A, I just found it by chance in your youtube channel. I believe instructions for the Berkely method (...