Vegetable growing
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This page discusses how to make vegetable beds more productive.
- Plant the vegetables in waves rather than in rows. This allows you to fit more plants in a bed without reducing the space between plants.
- Use mulch or living mulch such as clover. Clover will also
- Biochar
- Worms
- Fungal symbiosis:
- Elm oyster mushrooms (hypsizygus ulmarius) or garden giants (stropharia rugosoannulata) grown in vegetable beds will raise yields. Scatter some colonized grain, straw or cardboard into the beds.
- There is plenty of research showing that mycorrhizal spores increase yields. Liquid spore solution can be added to seeds. It is available quite cheaply here. Mycelium Running say: "Mycorrhizologists harvest spores from wild or greenhouse-cultivated mycorrhizal puffball- or truffleshaped mushrooms from fungi like Glomus, Pisolithus, and Rhizopogon. Mature mushrooms are selected, pulverized into a powder, and then shaken through varied-size mesh screens until the fine spores fall through the bottommost screen (with the smallest openings)."
- Endophytic fungi (fungi that grow within plants) can boost yields
- Companion planting - see Wikipedia's list of companion plants