Nearly two-and-a-half years ago I posted this video as an introduction the growing philosophy that we we’re going to use here at the eco-house. Since then we’ve been busy implementing it and we’re pretty impressed. We’re using John Jeavons’ GROW BIOINTENSIVE methods, with deep beds, lots of compost and really closely spaced plantings. In the beds where we’ve gone for it properly – like last year’s potato beds – we’ve had almost no weeding to do, and some reasonable yields in spite of our inexperience. Here’s the good basic video introduction to what we’re trying to follow:
March 7, 2011
Our Biointensive growing techniques
Posted by traffordeco under Biointensive, Motivation | Tags: Allotment, Food, Garden, Grow Biointensive, Grow-your-own, John Jeavons, minifarm, Vegetables, video |1 Comment
March 7, 2011 at 7:42 pm
All very interesting, but there does not to appear to be any useful information contained in there. The first 4 minutes and last 5 minutes are wasted with some 2nd rate guitar playing. I would much rather have some real world useful info rather than an idealised overview and lots of pretty pictures of plants. This whole thing could have been half as long, and twice as useful.