Time to explore more of the methods of Jean Pain as written in The Methods of Jean Pain. For this experiment a small tomato plantation of four indeterminate tomatoes. Although our experimental pile of brushwood compost is just underway and thus far from usable we were able to substitute a fresh pile of hot compost … Continue reading A Jean Pain Tomato Plantation
Author: Carolina Permaculture
Tomatoes: Testing a Public Idea
If you have been on the internet for more than five minutes, or if that five minutes was spent on Facebook, Pintrest, or the like then you have likely seen this method for planting tomatoes. It involves planting four tomato plants around a buried bucket that has been drilled with holes and half filled with … Continue reading Tomatoes: Testing a Public Idea
Our First Brushwood Compost Experiment
Recently, I read a short booklet; The Methods of Jean Pain or Another Kind of Garden a PDF of which can be downloaded here. The contents of the booklet, originally written in 1973, describe the brushwood compost and gardening methods of the Frenchman Jean Pain. The format of the booklet in PDF form was, at … Continue reading Our First Brushwood Compost Experiment
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