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Living organic soil from start through recycling
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rrog
I believe that was Microbeman that mentioned that in a post.
BTW - have you ever been able to find Nepalese fermented bamboo - mesu?
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I believe that was Microbeman that mentioned that in a post.
BTW - have you ever been able to find Nepalese fermented bamboo - mesu?
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bajangreen
Gascanastan Way nice room, are those 5gal buckets? how much and whats your yield like?
They are cuts right?
They are cuts right?
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bajangreen
O.L.S is about building a food web of insects. can someone tell me witch insect that we want at the top?
What exactly do you mean?
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BlueJayWay
Quick analysis = good shit
Same and same for me, made some teas with it, excellent response from the gardens, same with top dressing. I dig all the biodynamic stuff about it, and the yarrow and nettle and goodies they mix in there.
Neo 420
I'm with BlueJayWay on the Malibu Biodynamic Compost - big thumbs up!
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I'm with BlueJayWay on the Malibu Biodynamic Compost - big thumbs up!
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all natural
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which would you say is better ? malibu or the fish compost? I found some broken glass in the fish compost
all natural
Definitely the Malibu. Just to be clear on the fish compost, when CT Guy (KISS Organics) told me about this it was in the context of worm food. There is a bagged compost from Seattle called Cedar Grove which isn't very good for even worm bins. But CTG had run some basic tests and said that the bacteria levels were solid (not the exact term but close).
On your other question about Live Earth Humates - this isn't really going to do much in a container. I bought a bag a few years back and ended up adding it in the correct amounts to our vegetable and flower garden. It has a pretty long 'availability' issue meaning that 4 to 6 months in a container isn't going to give you much benefit.
HTH
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Definitely the Malibu. Just to be clear on the fish compost, when CT Guy (KISS Organics) told me about this it was in the context of worm food. There is a bagged compost from Seattle called Cedar Grove which isn't very good for even worm bins. But CTG had run some basic tests and said that the bacteria levels were solid (not the exact term but close).
On your other question about Live Earth Humates - this isn't really going to do much in a container. I bought a bag a few years back and ended up adding it in the correct amounts to our vegetable and flower garden. It has a pretty long 'availability' issue meaning that 4 to 6 months in a container isn't going to give you much benefit.
HTH
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MrSterling
Morning all! Hope life is treating you guys well and that you're all staying good and high. All I seem to do these days is rake!
Autumn really decided to show up after that hurricane sucked the warm weather away. The upside of having to make fires is I'm getting chunks of char again to add to the compost; MM is using this for inoculating I think I read?
Some of my potted plants got repotted into my organic soil mix since they needed doing. I was worried it would be too rich but frankly the plants are riding out the cold like I've never seen. I've a marigold plant that's been holding its blossoms way longer than usual too. A very pleasant experience!
Is there any benefit to using honey over molasses for ACT? I figure it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, but an old head gave me a bunch of local honey and ACT is definitely new territory for me.
Namaste!
Autumn really decided to show up after that hurricane sucked the warm weather away. The upside of having to make fires is I'm getting chunks of char again to add to the compost; MM is using this for inoculating I think I read?
Some of my potted plants got repotted into my organic soil mix since they needed doing. I was worried it would be too rich but frankly the plants are riding out the cold like I've never seen. I've a marigold plant that's been holding its blossoms way longer than usual too. A very pleasant experience!
Is there any benefit to using honey over molasses for ACT? I figure it's six of one, half a dozen of the other, but an old head gave me a bunch of local honey and ACT is definitely new territory for me.
Namaste!
Cedar Grove is often unfinished compost from the bag. It's cool they collect local higher quality materials,but I have found bits of plastic and orange peels in Cedar Grove. Never had an issue with Oly Mountain fish......dark and fully finished...no funky bits.
I thought I read where someone was taking carbon and adding it to the worm bin to inoculate the carbon with microbes. Might have been a hallucination. I know a farmer that feeds chickens a bit of carbon with food so the eventual chicken manure contains pre-charged carbon. That may be where I got that notion.
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MrSterling
Rrog it's an interesting idea considering the structure of charcoal. Seems there'd be a lot of surface area to pick things up. I was just reading your geothermal thread as well, good luck!
oh yeah,even your houseplants really love a good ACT,i have seen plants bounce back from close to death after one or two applications of ACT.and if the plant was healthy to begin with they can reall
as you can see,i have a slight houseplant problem...up to about 110 different species...
y take off,my wandering jew started to toss some serious branching at the nodes,which is something i had never seen before.
ahhh succulents...got any Lohophora williamsii in there...maybe some San Perdro..or Peruvianus.
I used to work the succulents.....taking appropriate sized williamsii buttons and grafting them onto the matched size of trichocereus rootstock. Increasing williamsii production at a much faster rate..in fact at the same growth rate as a trichocereus.
Ringin' any bells?
I used to work the succulents.....taking appropriate sized williamsii buttons and grafting them onto the matched size of trichocereus rootstock. Increasing williamsii production at a much faster rate..in fact at the same growth rate as a trichocereus.
Ringin' any bells?
lets just say im familiar with our old pal mescalito but these days i prefer to not spend time vomiting...my collection is still in its nascent phase so the great majority is composed of the easy to obtain and grow specimens,the only rarity i have so far is a nice little totem pole cactus (Pachycereus schotii v. monstrose)
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BlueJayWay
My family used to be good friends with some Native American folk, went into there greenhouse once, before I got shooed out, lohophora williamsii's by the hundreds, if not thousands, rows and rows and rows stacked in a good 50' length greenhouse - as a teenager I would attend their sweat lodges, they named me Eagle Eyes..... Good times.....
Panama Red, Panama Red
On his white horse, Mescalito
He comes breezin' through town
I'll bet your woman's up in bed with
ol' Panama Red
New Riders of the Purple Sage
On his white horse, Mescalito
He comes breezin' through town
I'll bet your woman's up in bed with
ol' Panama Red
New Riders of the Purple Sage
1/2 cup buttons
2 quarts water
Place into pressure-cooker and run that deal.
Drink the tea and slice up the re-hydrated buttons and eat .25 oz every 4 hours until finished
Sat Sri Akaal
2 quarts water
Place into pressure-cooker and run that deal.
Drink the tea and slice up the re-hydrated buttons and eat .25 oz every 4 hours until finished
Sat Sri Akaal
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