>>2577814Sorry for the late response, got banned for antisemitism as usual. I’m hoping to actually create a passive sowing through letting these cover crops like clover and buckwheat drop seed when I chop and drop them. The bigger headache I’m facing is how I’ll actually sow things going forward once there are actual beds shaped with the logs I’ve felled.
My plan is to use a hori-hori to cut these crops once they’ve completely matured and simply lay them on the soil surface. Any excess can be placed in the walkways where I’m planting trees, shrubs, and herbs. From there I’ll sow the next crop into the mulch.
The only risks I might face is poor germination sowing into a mulch that will range in thickness. Another option is cutting the mulch, temporarily placing it in the walkway, sowing seed into the exposed soil, and lightly sprinkling mulch over the top. Option 1 is far less labor, option 2 might see greater production (especially in tricky seeds like squash that I haven’t seen any seedlings of after broadcasting into both bare and living cover.
Whatever happens I will keep you all updated. I think I’m onto a really effective cultivation system that scratches all my gay regenerative/natural agriculture and Fukuoka fanboy principles.
>>2577857Appreciate it, anon. I get no respect for my farming. No respect at all.
>pic related is the forest lot, about a 1/3 acre in size, planted the same way as elsewhere after cutting down an assload of thin trees and raking a massive blanket of leaves and rocks into pseudo-contoured berms. 