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Hi,
I was down the new plot the other day brick picking. They range from half a concrete slab to large pebbles. One of the fellow plot holders is digging his ground an unusual way to me. He is basically digging a row then sitting down going through what he had dug and picking out all the stones. He is then throwing the soil in a big mound to rake back when he has finished digging his area. So when he is sat down you can't see him behind his mound but you know he is there as there is soil being thrown one way and stones another.
His method is that when he rakes it back air will be trapped and when there is a frost it will break the lumps down more but warm air will be trapped in the air pockets protecting any plant roots.
There is another guy on the site who does dig his plot over but does have plenty of stones. He has raised beds for his root veg. He says he was told by his dad many year ago to leave the stones in a) for drainage and b) the stones will keep the heat in over the winter period and then should warm the ground up quicker in spring.
Has anyone else heard of these two different views?
I was down the new plot the other day brick picking. They range from half a concrete slab to large pebbles. One of the fellow plot holders is digging his ground an unusual way to me. He is basically digging a row then sitting down going through what he had dug and picking out all the stones. He is then throwing the soil in a big mound to rake back when he has finished digging his area. So when he is sat down you can't see him behind his mound but you know he is there as there is soil being thrown one way and stones another.
His method is that when he rakes it back air will be trapped and when there is a frost it will break the lumps down more but warm air will be trapped in the air pockets protecting any plant roots.
There is another guy on the site who does dig his plot over but does have plenty of stones. He has raised beds for his root veg. He says he was told by his dad many year ago to leave the stones in a) for drainage and b) the stones will keep the heat in over the winter period and then should warm the ground up quicker in spring.
Has anyone else heard of these two different views?
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