the backyard SCIENTIST

LAST year I was growing garlic at my friend’s organic farm in Keilor as part of the farmer incubator pop-up garlic program. In the program groups of four or five people grow a crop of garlic together at several farms around Melbourne and receive guidance throughout the growing season in the form of advice and workshops about growing but also selling and marketing.

Our little group knew that we wanted to add some soil amendments to get a bigger crop. We read many things about all the benefits of soil amendments but we couldn’t decide which one was the right thing for our soil. I thought we had two options: throw everything