VERMICOMPOST O LOMBRICAST

Advantages: 

• Promotes germination. 
• Unlock soil elements and makes them comparable, but not disappear once used proliferates, improved earliness, health, organoleptic characteristics of the fruit and in general, plants grow healthy and free of major pathogens. 
• Improves texture, that is, if a floor is too far or too compacted clay, it disintegrates. 
• Improved water retention, so we save on irrigation, the texture in which our product is presented, 
• Reduces evapotranspiration, unlike the product presented in bags of lumpy and difficult way to manage in the field.

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MIXED VEGETABLE GROWING

The Mixed Vegetable cultivation offers many advantages, one of the most important is that, although this type of culture may be more exposed to a greater number of pests, will also have more predators. No kind of pest has the potential to develop into uncontrollable proportions.
One of the lessons learned was our farmers crops are better if mixed, whether vegetables or flowers. Different types of plants likely provide a better harvest; the concentration of a single crop can lead to disaster.

A classic example of this was the absolute confidence in the potato as a food crop in the mid-nineteenth century. The plague ravaged the potato field for several years, causing a great famine to the accused which died or emigrated nearly two million people to avoid its effects. 

The same can happen with planting flowers.

Monocultures are more prone to diseases and pests that the mixed plantations, and it can be shown that these yields are not as substantial as those of crops grown together. The modern techniques of agriculture and horticulture based on monoculture, especially greenhouse cultivation, rely almost exclusively on chemicals to maintain healthy plants. 

Collate crops reduces the chances of destroying entire crop disease and facilitates swarms of beneficial insects that attack pests. (Biological Control of Pests)

Monoculture, or the concentration of a single crop, allowing pests and diseases spread rapidly one settled again, with the result of relying on pesticides, fungicides and other chemicals to control the problem on cultivated land, if can effectively eradicate it, because in some cases, especially viral infections, do not yet have a suitable chemical control.

GETTING STARTED OUR ORCHARD

Beginning the ecological orchard

Whenever we start a orchard and more ecological if it is appropriate to have a small portion of land where plants grow fast growth that is then used as green manure. The best situation is obtained from vegetable patches, as they constitute an insurmountable barrier for those soil pests which come in crops.
And leave space for USEFUL HERBS, if you have a minimum of space in the garden. It is useful to prepare a solid for the cultivation of medicinal herbs, seasoning and, since they involve the ideal complement to the pantry in the manger.
These species are not affected by pests and diseases typical of the vegetables and further maintenance is easy to perform.

The most suitable place to place it depends on the type of plant to be planted. Be distinguished two main groups. The species that require moist environments, such as mint, dill, basil, lemon balm, etc, and prefer the driest places eg thyme, capers, rosemary, fennel, etc..

If the characteristics of the terrain allows it, stand on higher ground than the rest of the orchard, imitating a small wooden fence to better retain soil and prevent their stalks are stepped on, or the seeds are spread out of the bed.
Always have these plants do better if the proximity of a wall to protect them from the wind and cold was utilized.
Feel free to take advantage of the ends of the plot and those portions of land that have been released in different parts of the orchard, between terraces or between the shed and the driveway, etc.
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ORGANIC FARMING

Organic Farming  is seeking a diminish the damage done to nature and health of the consumer, it is an open door to the path to generate a new agriculture of the past but by mixing with an accompanying process of Nature it being the main actor, with its extraordinarily beneficial impact on the economy, the social balance, health of body and spirit, carries the lofty ideal of true brotherhood.
Biological Agriculture fundamentally seeking fidelity to the laws of nature and beneficial, eminently practical, not just theoretical, realizable with low overhead and is only utopian in the eyes of those who know nothing of it, they are devoid of the innate wisdom of nature, using natural methods because copied best natural processes such as simplification and cost-effective implementation of his.
The purpose is not to force the land to produce the most and without prior notice to it without polluting and destroying it with mineral fertilizers and pesticides because of performance and is a process that started long years ago which affects wealth soil . Man should be a farmer , no operator, the varied use and thoroughly planned promotes variety of all life forms and organic farmer want to leave uncultivated areas where wildlife can thrive lifestyles undisturbed and at peace.
The farmer will seek to leverage its real plot , orchard, garden pot , etc. ; improving and preserving the earth model ; fertility. Observing nature learn to cultivate a single product or maintain a single animal species in the same plot of land is outside the natural order of things will notice first of all that if it interferes chain of life, which is a part, is puts himself in danger, because it can not disturb the natural balance.

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BENEFITS OF CULTIVATION OF NATURE
TYPES OF SUBSTRATES
Biological Control of Pests
Horticulture Biological soil
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