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If you jave fruit trees and will have chickens you are in the perfect situation for a fabulous veggie garden. Paul Gautschi uses the Back to Eden gardening method and says grow fruit trees first, then grow veggies underneath! He also has a "regular" garden plot that he used woodchips to cover the area to repair and nourish the clay based soil so he never plows or tills. Now he uses his chicken run compost. Check out tons of videos about Paul Gautschi in L2survive YouTube channel. Here's one:
Once again, welcome, and best of luck to you!
 
Cryss said:
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If you jave fruit trees and will have chickens you are in the perfect situation for a fabulous veggie garden. Paul Gautschi uses the Back to Eden gardening method and says grow fruit trees first, then grow veggies underneath! He also has a "regular" garden plot that he used woodchips to cover the area to repair and nourish the clay based soil so he never plows or tills. Now he uses his chicken run compost. Check out tons of videos about Paul Gautschi in L2survive YouTube channel. Here's one:
Once again, welcome, and best of luck to you!
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Why is the title of that video: This doesn't work?

I'm working towards BTE. Have planted an orchard, and have tried underplanting with corn, sorghum, and bush beans. Both corn and bush beans were a dismal failure due to soil not being built up yet. Plan to repeat with beans to help soil to improve.

BTE in garden is slow going due to huge amount of chips required. But, plants are doing very well, especially potatoes with BTE approach.

I am convinced that BTE is a worth while gardening method, but it requires an incredible amount of work to get established. Once a good layer of chips is built up, it should be fairly easy to maintain by topping off chip layer every season.
 

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