{"id":779,"date":"2018-11-07T04:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2019-07-01T18:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T18:53:43","slug":"bio-intensive-gardening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/bio-intensive-gardening\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio Intensive Gardening"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Random post on latest update on my urban gardening efforts using many if not all aspects of bio-intensive methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bio-intensive gardening, as far as I understand advocates following <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Double dig method:  Use following method depicted in the image below.<\/li>
  2. Compost: Used composted horse manure from local stable
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  3. Living mulch<\/li>
  4. Rotating crops between high-calorie and other plants<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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    Double Dig method<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    After trying bio-intensive method for six-months, I found that using first two steps has been relatively straightforward. The third step – of living mulch (to discourage weeds) is not easy. To combat weeds (morning glory specifically, I started using straw as mulch – see update below)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The produce, of tomatoes this summer season was very good (compared to produce from previous season) – from total of about 8 plants, estimated produce was 35 lb. The chili pepper produce was disappointing. And produce from cucumber and pumpkin was almost zero since the vines died due to lack of watering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Update on July 7, 2019 – Second harvest after bio-intensive farming – yields as below<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
    1. Yellow onions – 22 lb<\/li>
    2. Potatoes (mix of German butterball, purple and russet) – 45 lb.<\/li>
    3. Garlic – 5 bunches<\/li>
    4. companion plant – romain lettuce – 4 heads (approx 1 lb each)<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
      • Total area farmed – about 70 sq feet ( ~14×5)<\/li>
      • Fertilizers – one application of coffee grounds, two applications of alfalfa pellets, few oz. of fish-and-poop, one application of bone meal<\/li>
      • Used straw as mulch – about 3″ layer – this reduced weeding effort by ~90%<\/li>
      • Water – No watering between November to April (rained ~1″ per week). Then about once a week after April. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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          Random post on latest update on my urban gardening efforts using many if not all aspects of bio-intensive methodology. Bio-intensive gardening, as far as I understand advocates following Double dig method:  Use following method depicted in the image below. Compost: Used composted horse manure from local stable Living mulch Rotating crops between high-calorie and other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kher.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}