Post by edwin on Mar 13, 2013 9:41:49 GMT
Posted this on the BushcraftUK forum but it would be very relevant PA:
Not very useful if you have raised beds but when I worked our massive garden in Wiltshire I used a wheel hoe and long rows of veg to get the best out of it. Following on from my early Guru John Seymour and his comments on French horticulture where "they grow the best vegetables in the world, a row of this and a half row of that." in his Fat of the Land book.
Mine was a Jalo wheel (push) hoe with a number of attachments, even a plough, it could be hard work pushing it but it certainly did the job and I regretted giving it away when we moved although I had decided on a more hunter-gatherer lifestyle in Cornwall with foraging and fishing rather than the constant work of veg growing.
Different make to my Jalo but the principle is the same and the video does show ideal soil. Terrific machines without using oil products for power.
www.easydigging.com/Garden_Cu...push_plow.html
Not very useful if you have raised beds but when I worked our massive garden in Wiltshire I used a wheel hoe and long rows of veg to get the best out of it. Following on from my early Guru John Seymour and his comments on French horticulture where "they grow the best vegetables in the world, a row of this and a half row of that." in his Fat of the Land book.
Mine was a Jalo wheel (push) hoe with a number of attachments, even a plough, it could be hard work pushing it but it certainly did the job and I regretted giving it away when we moved although I had decided on a more hunter-gatherer lifestyle in Cornwall with foraging and fishing rather than the constant work of veg growing.
Different make to my Jalo but the principle is the same and the video does show ideal soil. Terrific machines without using oil products for power.
www.easydigging.com/Garden_Cu...push_plow.html