The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Vegetables => Topic started by: onnyview on January 21, 2012, 09:20:36 pm
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I am about to liberate a small paddock from a batch of store pigs that will be taking their final trip. What I would love to do now is take back the area from earing pigs and turn it into a permanent veggie patch. After I have turned the soil is there anything that would cope with the rich soil best?
:farmer: :pig:
Allison
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Not roots - carrots, parsnips etc don't tend to do so well in freshly manured ground so avoid them ;)
I always reckon you can't go wrong with tatties :thumbsup: They grow in pretty much anything and break up the soil as they grow and as you harvest them.
HTH
Karen :wave:
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Yes, agree with Karen, potatoes are the thing. We had our best ever crop of pink fir apple immediately after pigs one year.
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Yep - tatties :thumbsup: If that would mean that you will be overwhelmed with the things, then big brassicas would be fine too, once the soil has compacted a bit. In fact most veggies will be fine if the pigs have been off the ground for a few months, but just as HH says no carrots, parsnips and so on which go mad with too much fresh manure.
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Yep asgree with above ...also a bean crop, salads etc Squashes love lots of manure (my friend grows hers on last years muck heap!)
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Best cauliflowers I ever grew were after pigs. If I said they were bigger than a football I would not be exaggerating, and wonderful flavour too.
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Tattie's and brassicas it is then! Just need to coral the chickens to stop them scratching out the seedlings and I'll be away!
Thanks for the advise everyone. :wave: