Blogspot - Interia Dezain

It's that time of year again where activity in the Polyculture Market Garden Study draws to a close.  Beautiful sunny autumnal days have been spent gathering an abundance of walnuts, hazelnuts and sweet chestnuts.  This week we are chopping and dropping any left over plant material from the annual trial beds, clearing away the stakes that can be reused next year, and internally winding down from the third year of our research in the garden. We will shortly be obtaining and sending the annual soil samples, and once the results are back from the lab. we can finalize our write up and post the results here. See here for the results of our polyculture studies from 2014 - 2016 In the meantime, we would like to take the opportunity to thank all the individuals who gave their valuable time and support to the project in 2017. Without you, we couldn't do it! Fergus Webster, Gabriele Landi, Chris Mallorie, Abigail and Ed,  Ute Villavicencio, Charlie Morton, Chris Kirby-Lambert, ...

Inspired by the work of Lawrence D Hills (1911–1991) , who undertook extensive research on comfrey during his lifetime, we decided to start a comfrey trial of our own. Hills discovered a strain of comfrey that produced very high quantities of biomass -   Symphytum x uplandicum 'Bocking 14' . Using this plant we set up a trial bed in order to discover: how much biomass we can produce in our climate  how well comfrey can fertilise our crops how attractive comfrey is to garden wildlife whether growing comfrey has a beneficial impact on the soil Our Comfrey Trial Beds If you would like to learn more about comfrey and why it's considered such a great plant by many people take a look at our previous post  Comfrey - BELIEVE the HYPE! . Below you will find an overview of our trial and the results from 2016 and 2017. The Comfrey Trials  Comfrey Patch Overview  The comfrey beds are located in the red box in the above image of our Polyculture Market Garden in Shipka, ...