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by Jack Temple
(Full title "Here's Health Guide to Gardening without chemicals: a step-by-step guide to growing vegetables and soft fruit the organic way"
Found it in a second-hand bookshop, published in 1986.
The amount of plastic he casually uses wouldn't find favour today, but it's quite interesting in places. He has an obsession with seaweed (mulched, composted, powdered and dusted on crops as food and pest-repellent). Lots of refs to comfrey from the henry doubleday research association.
he uses a lot of non-rotted mulches which is interesting.
very keen on soil health and concerned about the risk caused by pesticides to soil life.
but does recommend a lot of digging.
Interesting idea with brassica - grow them in a v-trench then earth them up to prevent pest damage - the theory is that it attacks the bottom stem of the plant when it lays, so by earthing up and an allowing it to form more roots above that point, the damage is negated.
(Full title "Here's Health Guide to Gardening without chemicals: a step-by-step guide to growing vegetables and soft fruit the organic way"
Found it in a second-hand bookshop, published in 1986.
The amount of plastic he casually uses wouldn't find favour today, but it's quite interesting in places. He has an obsession with seaweed (mulched, composted, powdered and dusted on crops as food and pest-repellent). Lots of refs to comfrey from the henry doubleday research association.
he uses a lot of non-rotted mulches which is interesting.
very keen on soil health and concerned about the risk caused by pesticides to soil life.
but does recommend a lot of digging.
Interesting idea with brassica - grow them in a v-trench then earth them up to prevent pest damage - the theory is that it attacks the bottom stem of the plant when it lays, so by earthing up and an allowing it to form more roots above that point, the damage is negated.
I'll have to have a re-read ....
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