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--- garden:intro:2016 [2024/12/26 00:26] – [It was a good year!] davidbac
+++ garden:intro:2016 [2024/12/31 23:02] (current) – davidbac
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 A year ago for a winter cover crop at the farm I planted a mix of tillage radish (a variety of Daikon) and oats. I expected freezing temperatures as in previous years to freeze kill both allowing them to decompose during the winter, leaving a garden ready for remineralization and cultivation in the spring. For more information see [[garden:cultivate:tasks:grnmanure:oat-radish|oat and radish cover crop]].
-At the garden I had a good stand of crimson clover over the area planned for 2016 crops. To get transplants started in time I remineralized and cultivated only one-third of the future garden.
+{{  :garden:intro:pix:img_93542.jpg?360|Nice crimson clover cover crop!}}At the garden I had a good stand of crimson clover over the area planned for 2016 crops. To get transplants started in time I remineralized and cultivated only one-third of the future garden.
 ===== Not enough time and energy =====
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 The combination of lost plants from the mice and delays getting plants hardened off left me with some unexpected choices. I didn't have enough time/energy to scythe all of the crimson clover at the garden and to cultivate minerals into the soil. So a third of the garden had crimson clover going to seed. (OK, I thought, I'll save myself planting a winter cover crop in that section. I won't try that again, because I didn't get a consistent winter cover crop from the self-seeded clover.)
 ===== It was a good year! =====
-{{ :garden:2015:img_2039.jpg?120|}}One satisfying accomplishment was introducing a row for pollinators, French Marigolds, a type of cover crop.
+{{ :garden:intro:pix:img_2039.jpg?280|}}One satisfying accomplishment was introducing a row for pollinators, French Marigolds, a type of cover crop. I plan to use these for decor toward the front of the garden (near the street).
 There were more challenges than in the past. By many measures it was a good year:
-  * I harvested more than 2,700 pounds of produce.
+  * I harvested more than 2,745 pounds of produce.
   * I donated over 2,000 pounds to two local food banks.
   * I gave several hundred pounds to family and friends.