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Teddybrae
The point of this post is to show that materials usually considered unsuitable for growing may be used if the gardener keeps a close eye on what’s going on in his garden.
I have plants in large pots containing native Basalt soil amended with Cow and Chicken shit. Dolomite was added to correct soil pH. The pots contain quite a few worms which I continue to feed with finely chopped Kitchen Scraps, Pollard and finely ground Dolomite.
The pots are mulched with Eucalypt leaves and bark straight from the Forest floor. As the attached image shows the mulch is thick and is piled above the edges of the pots to allow worms an elevated refuge if there is flooding.
Reading various gardening guides and referring often to the threads in this Forum I am advised the mulch is too thick, is of material which will not easily rot down, and inevitably will lower soil pH. This advice is certainly true for the forest floor from which the mulch was gathered where pH below the Detritus Layer is often 4!
However, as the attached image shows the soil below the Detritus layer in my pot is around the correct pH for Cannabis. I can only think this must be due to the Dolomite I continue to feed the worms.
Any comments?
I have plants in large pots containing native Basalt soil amended with Cow and Chicken shit. Dolomite was added to correct soil pH. The pots contain quite a few worms which I continue to feed with finely chopped Kitchen Scraps, Pollard and finely ground Dolomite.
The pots are mulched with Eucalypt leaves and bark straight from the Forest floor. As the attached image shows the mulch is thick and is piled above the edges of the pots to allow worms an elevated refuge if there is flooding.
Reading various gardening guides and referring often to the threads in this Forum I am advised the mulch is too thick, is of material which will not easily rot down, and inevitably will lower soil pH. This advice is certainly true for the forest floor from which the mulch was gathered where pH below the Detritus Layer is often 4!
However, as the attached image shows the soil below the Detritus layer in my pot is around the correct pH for Cannabis. I can only think this must be due to the Dolomite I continue to feed the worms.
Any comments?