My bro would dig a deep hole in his GH and bury a fish ( 2 trout last year) and some fire ashes and lobster shells, then fill the hole and put a plant right above it... now we got on to the no-til.. he hasn't touched his soil the last year. I'm gonna be mixing some stuff in my greenhouse this year and then that's it.
Right on.. no-til is the shadizzles. I've gone 15 rounds with my current soil. Then I planted these Black Hyena... thinking they were going to be smaller plants and easier for me to grow. Oooopsie...
I mainly use my soil mix I'm making now as a mulch but its the same thing as I put in my no-til pots but use it as a top dress/mulch outdoors. I of course throw a few cu. ft. into a bin for later.
We have shit for soil on our property. Generations of neglect. In like 10 years we turned clay hard pan into black soil. Made a bunch of raised beds... I could grow some good weed in them now.
Vermicompost pics - today I was mixing soil for top dress/mulch for our gardens and took a few pics
Chemdawg - clone of clones ... in 1/2 gal Mason Jars plus a painting I did the previous night. I was playing with words and a paint brush.
Vermicompost bin - after winter time.. it was full to the top at new years. Dug some out and took a pic and self-feet! I think thats a hydroponic tomato there after about 6-9 months... I guess the bacteria, fungi and worms didn't consider it food... that's some REAL food for thought.
Vermi-compost screen on top of wheel barrow. Shovel compost into screen and shake n bake.
Output from shake thru screen... this is the BLACK GOLD. Reps to the worms!
Wheel the barrow over to the pile... empty and rake it back and forth. It was 90F today. Sweat equity here. Vermicompost only as good as inputs. We will see how good. Soil test forth coming.
Close up of screened vermicompost... not a great pic but meant to get the idea of the texture - very very close to wormcastings with a little larger particles mixed in... promotes better aeration.
Fruit of labor - beautiful beautiful flowers. YaY