Manure - Problems in the future.
harry wrote in
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In the 19th century "French Gardening" required that well over 100
tons of fresh horse manure per acre was used every year, to make
"hot beds" etc.
The cropping was very intensive often getting up to 7 crops a year
of the one piece of ground.
The soil level was hardly raised over the years, but they did have
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What I should have added was that most of the ground would be double
dug every year so that they had a growing depth of 18 inches or more.
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OK when you have an army of peasants to do the digging!
You are invited
Baz
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