mycorrhizal fungi – The Sustainable Smallholding http://sustainablesmallholding.org Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:43:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.3 44677425 Studying Soil Science http://sustainablesmallholding.org/studying-soil-science/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/studying-soil-science/#comments Sun, 26 Apr 2015 07:59:59 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4299 I’ve found myself getting more and more focussed on Soil Science, and wanting to research and test the effects of some of the ideas and systems that I am working on. Without access to academic papers, journals, expensive text books and laboratory equipment I am unlikely to be able to test my ideas sufficiently, so […]

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Overwintering Green Manure http://sustainablesmallholding.org/overwintering-green-manure/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/overwintering-green-manure/#comments Wed, 26 Feb 2014 19:13:01 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4162 I have used a number of Green Manure strategies this Winter as part of my soil fertility building program. In fact I think that I have shifted from growing food to growing soil as my primary activity. Using a Green Manure provides a number of benefits for me, which I’ll describe below. Please note that […]

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Chop and Drop in the Coppice http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chop-and-drop-coppice/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chop-and-drop-coppice/#comments Tue, 14 Jan 2014 10:02:02 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4099 I first came across the term ‘Chop and Drop’ in Geoff Lawton’s Establishing a Food Forest DVD. I reviewed the DVD here. Chop and Drop describes the actions of cutting branch wood from fast growing trees ‘nurse’ trees, and then using that wood to feed soil fungi, in order to help the production trees, planted […]

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Chromatography, Soil fertility, and Biodynamic Agriculture http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chromatography-soil-fertility-biodynamic-agriculture/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chromatography-soil-fertility-biodynamic-agriculture/#comments Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:15:56 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4056 I have spent a bit of time exploring paper chromatography as a means of testing the quality of soil and compost, thanks to the help of my friend Nigel. Now I’m not planning to explain what it is all about. Those of you who have stuck with my blog are quite able to find that […]

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DIY Soybean Inoculant http://sustainablesmallholding.org/diy-soybean-inoculant/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/diy-soybean-inoculant/#comments Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:47:33 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3986 My DIY Soybean Inoculant experiment was designed to create my own inoculant, to save having to order fresh commercial soybean inoculant each year. I described my reasons for conducting the experiment in my last post, Soybean Inoculant Experiment First Results. DIY Soybean Inoculant Method To create the inoculant I took an existing method for producing […]

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