Field technique library
Food crops
Rice and maize: stage feeding, and holding humus in soil cropped season after season.
Rice
Maize
Industrial crops
Basalt soils, the rain cycle and the route to an organic base for coffee and pepper.
Coffee1 article
Pepper
%OM, C/N ratio and moisture — three figures to check before buying
A high organic figure is not enough. The C/N ratio sets how fast it breaks down, and moisture decides how much dry matter you actually paid for.
Read on5 min read
Switching to an organic base: a three-season route, not a one-season leap
Cutting inorganics overnight is the fastest way to lose a season. A tapered three-season route holds yield while the soil recovers.
Read on7 min read
Falling pH and compacted soil: two things no single application fixes
Below pH 5 most of the phosphorus applied is locked by the soil and the plant can barely use it.
Read on6 min read
Fruit trees
Post-harvest recovery, flowering, fruit fill and placing feed at the drip line.
Durian1 article
Post-harvest recovery: what to do in the first 30 days
A tree that has just carried a crop has almost no fine root left. This window decides whether it can flower next season.
Read on6 min read
Feeding at the trunk, and four other habits that wreck roots
Place the fertiliser wrong and the fine roots never reach it — and the trunk can cook in the dry season.
Read on5 min read
Humic drenches: the right concentration at the right moment
Humic is not a fertiliser. It is an amendment that lets roots reach the nutrition already in the soil.
Read on4 min read
Short-cycle crops
Leafy greens and quick rotations: fast cycles, withholding periods and safe harvest.
Leafy greens
Flowers and medicinal plants
Ornamentals and medicinal species: timing bud set, and keeping residues clean.
Apricot blossom
