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Trusham, Devon - anyone know it? (Plan A)

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    #11
    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    I’ll have 20 acres of land. You dig?
    The 1960s called. They want their comment back.

    Hopefully you will get a load of "travellers"(what would Zig call them?) on your land.....

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      #12
      Originally posted by WTFH View Post
      The place I was looking at has over 20 acres of land, I don’t really want more than about 5, so I was contemplating off-loading some (or putting a few holiday/workers cottages on it)
      It would probably be easier to set up a cannabis farm. And I'm not joking.
      His heart is in the right place - shame we can't say the same about his brain...

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        #13
        Trusham, Devon - anyone know it? (Plan A)

        Originally posted by Mordac View Post
        It would probably be easier to set up a cannabis farm. And I'm not joking.
        : you might think so, I couldn’t possibly comment.
        …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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          #14
          Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View Post
          What Who are you planning on growing burying?
          FTFY

          According to this, it looks like a small area of lower tertiary sediments.

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            #15
            This is good too:

            Soilscapes soil types viewer - National Soil Resources Institute. Cranfield University

            Oh dear "Fertility: Very low!" on that Lower Tertiary purple patch
            Last edited by OwlHoot; 14 November 2018, 17:41.
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              #16
              Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
              This is good too:

              Soilscapes soil types viewer - National Soil Resources Institute. Cranfield University

              Oh dear "Fertility: Very low!" on that Lower Tertiary purple patch
              Fertility isn't that big an issue, it's about acidy loam/clay soil, if possible over limestone, but over rock would do.

              Based on your link, the absolute ideal is the yellow (Soilscape 3), followed by 13, then at a push 18, 17, 6 , 7, 5


              3 Shallow lime-rich soils over chalk or limestone
              5 Freely draining lime-rich loamy soils
              6 Freely draining slightly acid loamy soils
              7 Freely draining slightly acid but base-rich soils
              13 Freely draining acid loamy soils over rock
              17 Slowly permeable seasonally wet acid loamy and clayey soils
              18 Slowly permeable seasonally wet slightly acid but base-rich loamy and clayey soils
              …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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                #17
                What's the plan then? An industrial scale cannabis farm?
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                  #18
                  Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
                  What's the plan then? An industrial scale cannabis farm?
                  Nah, he is just looking for some soft sand to bury his head in.

                  “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
                    : you might think so, I couldn’t possibly comment.
                    Don't forget to account for all the meddling, interfering old busybodies who retire to that part of the world that I'm sure are rubbing their hands together with glee at the thought of bunging a spanner in the works of whatever you have planned.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by Big Blue Plymouth View Post
                      Don't forget to account for all the meddling, interfering old busybodies who retire to that part of the world that I'm sure are rubbing their hands together with glee at the thought of bunging a spanner in the works of whatever you have planned.
                      Well, it appears there's no mobile phone signal in the area and accidents happen to old people. They might slip on a stone, or fall into a deep hole, etc.


                      But anyway, back to earlier comments:
                      To keep the process as organic as possible, the use of things like bone meal fertiliser would work. In acidic soil (I'm hoping ph5-6), it's a good source of phosphorus and reasonable source of nitrogen. Finding a local source for bone meal would be great, it would be nice to get the DNA of the area into the produce, and maybe with a hand from a local pensioner, it would really make them part of the process.
                      …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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