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Pioneer year — twelve weeks before you plant a tree

the twelve weeks of legumes you sow before any fruit tree goes in are what decide whether that tree survives year three.

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  1. 01The problem with Punjab ground that has worked cotton and wheat for decades
  2. 02The promise, and who this is for
  3. 03The syntropic logic: why a pioneer wave precedes trees
  4. 04Read your starting soil: five field tests before you sow a seed
  5. 05The pioneer toolkit: six species profiled for Pakistan
  6. 06Designing the pioneer mix: why polyculture beats monoculture
  7. 07The twelve-week pioneer ladder: four rungs, one goal
  8. 08Establishment in detail: preparing the bed and the first weeks
  9. 09The cut: the science of cutting at peak nitrogen
  10. 10Chop-and-drop versus incorporation: the decision in detail
  11. 11Decomposition and soil biology: what to watch under the mulch
  12. 12Transition to the first trees: what goes in at week twelve
  13. 13Regional variation: adapting the pioneer year across Pakistan
  14. 14Economics: what the pioneer year costs and what it saves
  15. 15Detailed worked example: one acre near Faisalabad, week by week
  16. 16Your twelve-week pioneer calendar
  17. 17Where growers get the pioneer year wrong
  18. 18What good looks like at the end of week twelve
  19. 19What comes next