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Living on One Acre or Less

Page 22

by Sally Morgan


  maintenance 27

  orientation 27, 28

  overwintering poultry in 88

  paths 86

  pests and diseases 87, 88

  planning permission 19, 28

  siting 16, 28

  size and style 28

  sloping sites 28

  successional sowing 87

  ventilation 29, 87-8

  water supply 87

  see also solar tunnels

  polywire 22

  ponds 21, 152, 199

  poplars 19, 121, 121

  pot marigolds 84, 91, 92, 93

  potassium (K) 35, 47, 57, 58

  potatoes 36, 52, 60, 61, 62, 63, 84, 166

  poultry

  in forest gardens 129, 142

  in fruit cages 109, 109, 142

  parasites and diseases 156-9

  in polytunnels 88

  regulations 211, 212

  selling eggs and meat 156, 212 see also chickens; ducks; geese;

  quail; rheas; turkeys primroses 93

  productivity 7, 8

  protozoans 37

  pruning fruit trees 103, 106

  pumpkins 61, 159

  quail 88, 109, 144-5, 144

  eggs 143, 144, 145

  feeding 145

  housing 144-5

  meat birds 144

  quinces 115, 126

  rabbits 30-1, 117, 122

  radishes 71, 72, 85, 93

  rainbow trout 194, 195

  raspberries 107, 108, 111, 116, 129

  rats 30, 138, 157

  redcurrants 108, 111, 112

  resilience 7-8

  respiratory diseases 158-9

  rheas 144

  rhubarb 77, 108

  root crops 60

  see also specific types

  rootstocks 99, 101

  rosemary 92, 126

  roses 92, 129

  rotovating 40

  roundworms 142-3, 158

  rowan, edible 115

  royal jelly 202, 204

  Rudbeckia 92

  rugosa rose 116

  runner beans 61, 82, 83, 93

  rye grass 59, 63, 177, 177, 178

  salad burnet 78, 178, 179

  salad crops 27, 61, 74

  salmonberry 116

  salvias 82

  sandy soils 34, 35, 36

  sawfly 109

  scab 61

  sea buckthorn 116

  sea kale 78

  season, extending 86-90

  security 16

  seedlings

  damping off 55

  hardening off 88, 89

  self-reliance 7

  self-sufficiency 7

  Sen, Amartya 7

  shallots 70

  sheds 19, 21

  planning permission 19

  siting 16

  sheep 176-82

  breeds 176, 181

  checking on 21, 181

  equipment 181

  feeding 176, 180

  fencing in 24-5

  grazing 176-9

  health 181, 182

  land requirement 176, 180

  orphan lambs 182

  regulations 211-12

  routine care 181, 182

  shearing 181, 182

  slaughter 180, 212-13

  tagging 211

  weaned lambs, buying 180

  sheep hurdles 181

  sheep’s parsley 178

  shelter belts 122

  Shumei agricultural system 60

  silver leaf 103

  skirret 78

  slaughter

  goats 187, 212-13

  lambs 180, 212-13

  pigs 172-3, 212-13

  poultry 150, 152, 156, 212

  regulations 212-13

  sloping sites 16, 28

  smallholder farms, number of 7

  snowy mespilus 116

  soft fruit 106-17

  cuttings 112-13

  fruit cages 19, 21, 96, 107-8, 108

  fruiting hedges 112

  selecting 108-12

  soil preparation 108

  thornless varieties 108

  weed control 108

  see also specific types

  soil 32-63

  aeration 36, 37, 41

  colour 35

  compaction 38

  cultivation 38-43

  drainage 36, 37, 41

  fertility 14, 36, 37, 44, 47

  healthy soil 34, 37, 44, 46

  improvement 36, 46-63

  life in the soil 36-8, 40, 41, 43

  microorganisms 37, 47

  nutrients and micronutrients 34, 35, 36, 46, 47

  organic matter 35, 36, 37, 40, 48, 60

  pH 35-6, 42, 61, 62, 143

  structure and texture 34-5, 35, 39

  soil food web 37, 47

  soil pan 40

  solar tunnels 30

  spices 128

  spinach 27, 61, 62, 83, 85, 86

  spring onions 72

  squash 21, 43, 61, 62, 71, 83, 90, 166, 166

  stale seedbeds 72

  stepovers 106

  stock fencing 22

  strawberries 108, 112, 126

  successional sowing 69, 87, 91

  sulphur 35, 58

  sunflowers 83, 91, 117

  suppliers 217

  sweet chestnuts 123, 124

  sweet cicely 78, 126

  sweet peas 82, 89, 91

  sweetcorn 61, 63, 71, 72, 83, 83, 117

  Swiss chard 75, 75, 86

  Szechuan pepper 116, 119, 128

  tagging 211

  tapeworms 142, 158, 159

  tayberry 112

  thistles 72, 73

  thrips 82

  throat worms (gapes) 158

  thyme 159

  tiger worms (brandlings) 56, 56

  tilapia 194, 195

  timber trees 125

  see also fuelwood

  time factor 15, 68

  tobacco plant 82

  tomatoes 27, 84, 85, 86

  transporting livestock 211-12

  traps 30, 31

  tree guards 117, 124

  tree spinach 79

  trees

  coppicing 120-2

  fuelwood 120-2

  pollarding 121, 121, 122

  shelter belts 122

  see also fruit trees; nut trees

  trefoil 63, 178

  tubers and roots 80-2

  turkeys 134, 154-7

  breeds 154

  diseases 156-7

  eggs 143, 144

  feeding 155-6

  housing 154

  pens 155

  perches 154-5

  raising 155-6

  slaughter 150, 156

  US livestock regulations 213

  varroa mites 209

  vegetables

  choosing what to grow 69

  see also specific vegetables

  Verbena bonariensis 92

  vermicompost 55, 56, 57

  vetches 59, 60, 63, 126

  veterinary care 171, 210

  violas 93

  violets 129

  walking onions 78, 129

  wallows 170, 171, 171

  walnuts 123, 125

  water features 21, 152, 199

  see also aquaponics

  water run-off 16, 28, 43

  water supplies

  polytunnels 87

  sources 16, 21

  weed control

  clearing weeds 38-9, 40, 85

  crop rotation and 61

  hedges 116, 117

  hoeing 43, 72-3

  weed barriers 38, 39, 42, 74-5, 74, 108, 116, 128

  weed identification 72

  weed seeds 40, 43, 51, 72, 73, 74

  weedkillers 40

  welfare issues 210

  Welsh onions 75, 78

  white rot 61, 62

  whitecurrants 108, 112

  whitefly 84

  wild areas 21

  wild service tree 116, 126

 
wildlife, beneficial 20, 21, 75, 82, 84, 93, 114

  willow 19, 21, 92, 120, 120, 126, 142, 159

  coppicing 120, 121-2

  fuelwood 120, 121-2

  pollarding 122

  shelter belt 122

  windbreaks 16

  winter savory 78

  woody waste 54

  wormeries 21, 55-7, 56

  worming

  natural wormers 159, 178

  unnecessary 171, 182

  worms

  earthworms 36, 37-8, 37, 41, 43, 157

  parasitic worms 142-3, 149, 156-7, 158, 159, 170-1, 179, 182

  wormseed 159

  wormwood 159

  yacon 81-2, 81, 126

  yams 126

  yarrow 141, 178

  zinnias 91

  zoning 19-21

  ‘edge’ effect 20

  Also by Green Books

  Creating a Forest Garden

  Martin Crawford

  Creating a Forest Garden tells you everything you need to know to grow edible crops, while letting nature do most of the work. Whether you want to plant a small area in your back garden or develop a larger plot, it includes practical advice on planning, design (using permaculture principles), planting and maintenance. With a detailed directory of over 500 trees, shrubs, herbaceous perennials, annuals, root crops and climbers – almost all of them edible and many very unusual – this is the definitive book on forest gardening.

  Six Steps Back to the Land

  Colin Tudge

  Colin Tudge coined the term ‘Enlightened Agriculture’ to describe agriculture that is “expressly designed to provide everyone, everywhere, with food of the highest standard, nutritionally and gastronomically, without wrecking the rest of the world”. In Six Steps Back to the Land he explains how we can achieve that, and have truly sustainable, resilient and productive farms, with successful smallholdings as one of the steps along the way.

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  First published in 2016, in England

  Sally Morgan has asserted her moral rights under the

  Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

  Interior illustrations © 2016 Stephanie Laurence

  Front cover illustrations © 2016 David Mostyn

  All interior images are by Sally Morgan, with the exception of the following:

  Page 49: Ecoscene / Aldridge. Page 52 (left): Ecoscene / Gryniewicz. Page 120: Ecoscene / Ian Harwood. Page 136 (bottom): Ecoscene / Kathryn Martin. Page 156: Pam Drake / Cornwall Turkeys. Page 171: Ecoscene / Mark Tweedie. Page 190: FAO Aquaculture Photo Library. Page 191: Ryan Griffis. Page 202: Ecoscene / Chris Gill. Pages 55 & 145: iStock. Pages 30, 144, 148, 175, 181, 204, 208 & 195 (x 4): Shutterstock. The image on Page 189 shows the Aquaponics Solar Greenhouse at Humble by Nature. The illustrations on pages 193 & 196 are based on reference material from The Aquaponic Source.

  Design by Jayne Jones

  ISBN: 978-0-85784-330-2 (paperback)

  ISBN: 978-0-85784-331-9 (ePub)

  ISBN: 978-0-85784-332-6 (pdf)

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  Disclaimer: the advice herein is believed to be correct at the time of printing, but the author and publisher accept no liability for actions inspired by this book.

 

 

 


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