We Greenhorns love farming, and food, and bikes. We like biking from farm to farm, and we think bikes, like farming, are the future. So, naturally, we love this latest beautiful piece of machinery from Xtracycle: The Radish.
And in their November Newsletter: they also give some advice on how to use the box your new Radish comes in to mulch your radishes, and other veggies:
How to Grow a Radish
We’re aware that one of the resources we’re using more and more of as a company in the distribution of our products is cardboard. Radish, our new complete, comes in a box that’s nearly 90 square feet in size once unfolded. We love these boxes – they protect Radish incredibly well, they are renewable (though certainly at a cost to our forests) and thanks to our graphics team, they’re damn stylish. All that said, the question remains – what do you do with this resource once it’s done acting as the skin between your stuff and UPS? One option that happens to be seasonally appropriate, is sheet mulching. If you want the the nitty gritty on this permaculture technique, read more on our blog, but the essence of sheet mulching is this: by laying cardboard down in your garden, especially in areas where you’re trying to restrict the growth of weeds, the time it takes for the cardboard to decompose is often enough to prevent weed seeds from germinating early in the rainy season. Cardboard (a favorite food of 9 out of 10 earthworms) acts as a great natural mulch. Poke holes in the cardboard where you want your radishes (or other veggies) to sprout.
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- greenhorns: today we mulched our paths. most of them.
i've had quite enough of this rain.
plants benefited from that sunny interval.
still- too wet. July 2, 2009greenhorns: today we mulched our paths. most of them. i've had quite enough of this rain. plants benefited from that sunny interval. still- too wet.
- greenhorns: moving the pigs down to their newly fenced territory. A porcine gauntlet against the deer. i suffered some rosebush injuries. but its done. June 24, 2009greenhorns: moving the pigs down to their newly fenced territory. A porcine gauntlet against the deer. i suffered some rosebush injuries. but its done.
- greenhorns: @SeedLibrary of course. our seed came from synergy seeds in orleans california.. you know them? June 24, 2009greenhorns: @SeedLibrary of course. our seed came from synergy seeds in orleans california.. you know them?
- greenhorns: well well. we are delighted. muddy- and with 6 gallons of milk to drink. Goat spit an utter and most profoundly delightful success. onwards! June 22, 2009greenhorns: well well. we are delighted. muddy- and with 6 gallons of milk to drink. Goat spit an utter and most profoundly delightful success. onwards!
- greenhorns: 12 kinds of lettuces harvested into red buckets
pea shoots and mayonaise for dinner.
life is a rounded teaspoon
+the kittens keep purring June 20, 2009greenhorns: 12 kinds of lettuces harvested into red buckets pea shoots and mayonaise for dinner. life is a rounded teaspoon +the kittens keep purring
- greenhorns: HARDWICK young farmer mixer--magic networking+bonfire.
GOAT SPIT tomorrow in brooklyn-- happily harvesting marjoram!
strawberry fingers. June 19, 2009greenhorns: HARDWICK young farmer mixer--magic networking+bonfire. GOAT SPIT tomorrow in brooklyn-- happily harvesting marjoram! strawberry fingers.
- greenhorns: busting beds. moving chickens.
farming seems to be about 80% fixing things, and moving things around.
seems like fixing america is similar. June 3, 2009greenhorns: busting beds. moving chickens. farming seems to be about 80% fixing things, and moving things around. seems like fixing america is similar.
- greenhorns: moth bodies- a great pulse of them. Slamming around the house chased by kittens. acceleration of summer, and my psychic, literary output- May 21, 2009greenhorns: moth bodies- a great pulse of them. Slamming around the house chased by kittens. acceleration of summer, and my psychic, literary output-
- greenhorns: today we install deer fence around the ( thusfar vulnerable) baby frisee+ reine des glaces and forellenschluss lettuces. for the goatspit ! May 12, 2009greenhorns: today we install deer fence around the ( thusfar vulnerable) baby frisee+ reine des glaces and forellenschluss lettuces. for the goatspit !
- greenhorns: thank you lord. for most this amazing day. for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and the true blue dream of sky. for SMITHEREEN FARM !!! May 11, 2009greenhorns: thank you lord. for most this amazing day. for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and the true blue dream of sky. for SMITHEREEN FARM !!!
- greenhorns: today we mulched our paths. most of them.
i've had quite enough of this rain.
plants benefited from that sunny interval.
still- too wet. July 2, 2009
December 2, 2008 at 2:21 am
Brilliant! Now my wheels are turning.
December 2, 2008 at 3:19 pm
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