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Newfoundland

should you still your patch or not????

12/15/2010 2:11:59 PM

Western PA

I am still tilling my patch.

Just about all successful growers till there patch in the spring.

Can you grow ag's with a no till system? sure it will just be harder to do and odds are your results will not be as good.

12/19/2010 12:31:17 PM

Ohio

do you mean during the season or at the start of the season

12/19/2010 1:17:02 PM

New Zealand

im doing a no till grow, but i pitch fork the patch so the roots can grow good, yet keeping moisture retention and all the worms and bugs in one piece.
but am still a new grower.

12/21/2010 12:40:38 AM

Owensboro, Ky.

Sorta thinkin it depends on what yer soil is like, in the spring!! Here, it is like a brick...if I don't break it up a lil, it will be like a brick!!! Peace, Wayne
PS...I till!!! LOL

12/21/2010 2:30:07 AM

New Zealand

if you till when top 8 inches of soil is dryish you'll save the worms but you'll still smash the micorhiza hypae network and beneficial fungi and bacteria they take some time to recover so if you have to till do it as infrequently as possible i don't till because i rely on soil microbes to feed my plant and don't use chemical fertilizers i still pitchfork however just twice a year the massive amount of worms keep soil loose

12/22/2010 4:59:37 AM

Muddy Waters

If you till all the time you will get a hard pan on clay base soils.Your roots will basicly stop at 6-8 inchs do to hard panning of soil.You should plow if possible at least every other year.

12/22/2010 8:42:44 PM