Local Harvest Gardening

I appreciate you taking the time to share what you've done. This will be tremendously helpful for other gardeners! This looks great Tom! The pictures are very helpful to show the process. Well it did not wash off the cardboard with the really heavy rains we got right after completing this which is ...

Dr Elaine Ingham’s Soil Food Web School will be hosting a feee webinar series starting March 15th. It is free if you register and the videos will be available to watch after the event if you did register. See the link below if you are interested.

https://www.soilregensummit.com/register-2022/

Well I spent Friday evening looking at microbes with my shadowing microscope from a small sample of a Korean Natural Farming composting trial that Andrew gave me when picking up a couple of yards of compost. I did not do a full biological assessment as it was Friday night and I am also still learnin...

And the last few images.

Three pic limit so a few more.

Well today I built a couple of new beds on the front lawn. I did it Charles Dowding style and now we have two additional beds of 16 foot x 3 foot beds that get good sun. Our original beds are somewhat shaded and this more than doubles our bed area. Also the original beds were 3' wide but the paths w...

Andrew, thank you for the webinar today on Composting. It did clarify some Bokashi rules I understood but were not as firmly stated in the Bokashi videos. So two questions: Bokashi as green materials in compost. I have been using Bokashi for my kitchen scraps as I don't have a freezer to store them ...

If you have time to wait and your piles will see a few turns over the year, try to get as much diversity of materials in your piles as you can. Every different plant material will bring in different microbes and nutrients. The plants will mine the soil for the nutrients it needs though the root exud...

Ask them what the fungal to bacterial ratio is of their compost. If they can't tell you, you may just be getting anaerobic organic matter that has gone through a waste reduction process. It does not want to be black as that is a sign of anaerobic breakdown. You want to see dark chocolate brown colou...

Well Rotifers are not really part of the soil food web but they do show up. They are more of an aquatic critter so if you see them in soil, you may have waterlogged anaerobic conditions, which is not ideal. Now I found this fellow in a sample of water I drained from some wicking beds before the wint...