Category: Trials

Trial beds dig/no dig plantings and results 2013-2018
29th December 2020 Trials
Starting out in 2013 I made two large beds, five feet wide and sixteen feet long (1.5x5m), the same area as Lower Farm’s experiment, and used old oak planks from a tree at Lower Farm which I had
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No Dig Trial 2019-2020
5th December 2018 No Dig Growing, Trials
Photo 6th September 2020, dig left and no dig right This trial began in 2007 and ran until 2012 at Lower Farm. It’s to compare growth of the same vegetables in a dig bed and a no dig bed, all ha
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Three Strip Trial 2014-2020: no dig, forking, different composts
4th December 2018 Trials
Photo above is September 2019. This one is now in year seven. since I created its current layout in 2014, testing for the effect of forking soil rather than digging. The 2019 video has more on this a
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Lower Farm Trials
4th December 2018 No Dig Growing, Trials
Harvests in 2007-2012 from the dug and undug experimental beds at Lower Farm, Somerset, UK. Background to the experiment The four beds of 1.5×2.5m (5×8′) were created in March 2007 fro
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