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Living organic soil from start through recycling

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Gascanastan

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Then last week CT Guy (Keep It Simple Farm and KIS Organics) called and told me about a fish compost (certified organic) that they are offering and at a really good price!! He is using it in some of the worm bins as feedstock. This is black compost. Not brown. Black. There is absolutely no fish smell at all - just the smell of well made compost.

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Olympia fish compost???...good stuff,black,doesn't stink,full of humic material and definitely lacking the common 'yard and construction material'.....schwagg turned me on to this stuff last year...good score.
 

Gascanastan

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"The dudes in marketing I would imagine since they don't have an actual scientist on staff.

Or anything remotely close......"

I'm sure they have plenty of scientists on the 'staff'........in the back room with the lube.

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Durdy

Hey clackamascootz I know someone who used to be a partner in the malibu compost company. they went their separate way because they felt the quality of the compost was diminishing and they started their own company called sacred cow compost. Check it out I believe it's cheaper then the malibu and it's supposed to be of better quality(so I hear).

Also does CT guy have a website where the neem meal can be ordered from? I've been having trouble sourcing this amendment. as well as basalt rock dust.
 

Microbeman

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Coot & Gascan; Don't forget that Dr. Ingham says that black compost is no good...it must be brown...By golly, I had to throw out about 40 yards of my vermicompost when I heard that!
 

Microbeman

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Hey clackamascootz I know someone who used to be a partner in the malibu compost company. they went their separate way because they felt the quality of the compost was diminishing and they started their own company called sacred cow compost. Check it out I believe it's cheaper then the malibu and it's supposed to be of better quality(so I hear).

Also does CT guy have a website where the neem meal can be ordered from? I've been having trouble sourcing this amendment. as well as basalt rock dust.

http://www.kisorganics.com/
 

Seandawg

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Coot & Gascan; Don't forget that Dr. Ingham says that black compost is no good...it must be brown...By golly, I had to throw out about 40 yards of my vermicompost when I heard that!

It has to be snickers brown lol. I can understand her theory / principal. But like your sarcasm indicates it doesn't always indicate anaerobic conditions.
 
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BlueJayWay

Coot & Gascan; Don't forget that Dr. Ingham says that black compost is no good...it must be brown...By golly, I had to throw out about 40 yards of my vermicompost when I heard that!

Where'd you toss it? I'll go pick it up, I don't mind if its black hahaa!
 
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Durdy

Probably a stupid question but I take it neem seed meal and neem cake are basically the same thing?
 
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BlueJayWay

Time to make more soil.

I overlooked the level of decomposition to my current soil (which is just a hodge podge of FFOF, HF, ednas, and stuff like that) and without adding almost 50/50 with rice hulls or whatever it's too broken down and getting compacted and waterlogged, had to transplant a couple dozen in 1 gal bags back into different 1 gal bags with the same soil but cut 2:1:1 soil:sphagnum peat:rice hulls, doing much better, more growth in a few days after transplant (including major disturbance to the root ball) than the past two weeks sitting in compacted & waterlogged soil!

I really like the 50gal smart pot I did up so I'm gonna get several of those to run notill, need to rig something up though to make them mobile, on wheels, without the sides sagging over.

I'm finally using up some subpar worm castings I felt obliged to use from a friend so I get to try out SLO worm farm which comes highly recommended!


Kisorganics, thanks for the link MM, my only question is which one of you guys owns that site, its eerily inline with what's goin' on in this thread! :D
 
Time to make more soil.

I overlooked the level of decomposition to my current soil (which is just a hodge podge of FFOF, HF, ednas, and stuff like that) and without adding almost 50/50 with rice hulls or whatever it's too broken down and getting compacted and waterlogged, had to transplant a couple dozen in 1 gal bags back into different 1 gal bags with the same soil but cut 2:1:1 soil:sphagnum peat:rice hulls, doing much better, more growth in a few days after transplant (including major disturbance to the root ball) than the past two weeks sitting in compacted & waterlogged soil!

I really like the 50gal smart pot I did up so I'm gonna get several of those to run notill, need to rig something up though to make them mobile, on wheels, without the sides sagging over.

I'm finally using up some subpar worm castings I felt obliged to use from a friend so I get to try out SLO worm farm which comes highly recommended!


Kisorganics, thanks for the link MM, my only question is which one of you guys owns that site, its eerily inline with what's goin' on in this thread! :D

Lemme know if you solve the floppy smart pot issue - I was thinking chicken wire stapled around the outside of the bag or something. Harbor Freight has casters pretty damn cheap - just need a piece of plywood, but lifting it over the lip of the tent still sucks awfully.
 

Seandawg

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Lemme know if you solve the floppy smart pot issue - I was thinking chicken wire stapled around the outside of the bag or something. Harbor Freight has casters pretty damn cheap - just need a piece of plywood, but lifting it over the lip of the tent still sucks awfully.

Why not put the chicken wire on the inside?
 

dank.frank

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Time to make more

Kisorganics, thanks for the link MM, my only question is which one of you guys owns that site, its eerily inline with what's goin' on in this thread! :D


KIS Organics is owned by CT....



dank.Frank
 
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Durdy

I finally found some horsetail! unfortunately it's in a planter next to the main street of my town. theres a ton of it! But I'm thinking it's probably best to avoid due to its proximity to traffic? Thoughts?
 
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