Year-Round Kitchen Garden Protocol

Used in

• Chapter 6 The Five-Year Conversation

The rows that check it

• 6 confirmed
• 1 amended
• 1 marked for safety

• F66 amended Safety Hotbed: trench 60 cm × 1.40 m east-west, 10 cm gravel, horse manure 45 to 50 cm in 15 cm lifts at 55 to 60 % moisture, 5 cm buffer, 20 cm medium; passes 45 °C in 48 to 72 h, peaks …
• F63 confirmed Kitchen garden for four: 25 beds of 12 m² = 300 m², 18 crops, 1,255 kg a year after a 35 % margin (15 storage, 12 pests, 8 trimming), 225 to 255 h (70 Feb to Apr, 85 May to Aug, …
• F64 confirmed Crop yields kg/m²: cabbage 6.5 to 9.3, kale 4.4 to 6.6, swede 10 to 15, beetroot 4.8 to 7.2, carrot 5 to 8, parsnip 5.5 to 8.8, squash 2.6 to 4.6, peas 2 to 3, lettuce 3.2 to 5.6; …
• F65 confirmed Frost windows at 52°N: 137 days between air frosts (8 May to 22 September), 163 between light ground frosts (26 April to 6 October), 206 between hard ground frosts (5 April to 28 …
• F67 confirmed Clubroot spores 10 to 20 years, favoured pH 5.2 to 5.8, suppressed 7.2 to 7.6, brassica pause 6 to 7 years (133 also says six and eight), ash four weeks before transplanting, no …
• F68 confirmed Teltower Rübchen: 2 to 4 cm, sown 10 to 25 August, 60 to 75 days, coarse on loam; Goethe supplied by Zelter, Kant; Edict of Potsdam 1685, c. 20,000 Huguenots; Lenné 1789 to 1866
• F77 confirmed Second-round disagreements printed in the Broker's paragraph: onion consumption 30 (132) vs 12 kg/person (134); curing 14 to 21 (132) vs 10 to 14 days (134); onion seed population …

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