My organic garden

Good looking plants, I would recommend some mulch as soon as you can.

 

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Try 17”


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Organic mulch, leaves, bark, rice hulls, straw, depends on what's available to you, I like dried fan leaves dried comfrey and alfalfa straw, a good mulch will work/feed the soil food web.

 

2nd this mulch or cover crop is a must


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The food web hes talking about is the life in your soil. This includes microbes,fungi,nematodes, protozoa,worms,larvae, arthropods, insects,spiders,ect...they all are part of this food web every organism plays a role in breaking down organic material, some of these organisms will eat one another. When all the life in your soil is thriving and have the right conditions to flourish the human element becomes irrelevant. In other words rather than trying to play God and force feed your plants your allowing the life in your pots or beds to do all the work. The resuls are beautiful healthy plants that are growing as if they are in nature as mother earth intended.


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This is what my pots look like the clover is a living mulch and shades the topsoil keeping it moist and providing an ideal habitat for worms

Results are happy green plants with little effort no need to PH or calculate ppm or force feed your plants everything they need is provided by the living soil

 

the soil food web is the microbiology that is created in an organic soil that that feeds your plants and your plants provide nutrients to the soil creating the soil food web.
Or something like that.
If you have a good quality organic soil mix like this oneThe Old Soap Box you will have a living organic soil utilizing the soil food web.

 

That's why when you topdress your kelp, Earth worm castings,crab meal etc.. your not feeding your plants, your feeding your soil, keeping it alive.

 

Usually bagged mulch from home depot or garden store have dyes and chemicals stuff is pretty toxic ive worked with it at landscape yard that made mulch its nasty stuff id stick with straw or barley or bark mulch


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Non dyed "bark" mulch. Have had great luck with 'Greens mix', its sold at Lowes.
cheers
os

 

Can you bury trimmings in the corner of the garden for composting? Like a compost pile in the corner of the garden, or will that attract pests to the richness?


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You can just mulch/top dress trimmings like fan leaves and well chopped stems.
Cheers
Os