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Iron_Lion
I pretty much started doing this to dispose of garden waste.
I keep a bin of spent soil and I have been adding ground up leaves and pieces of chopped up stems. My thought is that the leaf will eventually decompose and provide a leafy compost effect to the soil.
And the stems is to replace the woody chunks that were in the in the original store bought mix, and perhaps add some aeration to the soil.
Im trying to turn my soil into more of like a forest floor type soil by continually adding fresh compostable material as the soil gets used then recycled again.
Anyone see any harm that may come from doing it this way? My main concern is how materials decompose and become available to the plant. I recently had bad burning from using bone meal and blood meal, I'd hate to have something like that happen again.
I keep a bin of spent soil and I have been adding ground up leaves and pieces of chopped up stems. My thought is that the leaf will eventually decompose and provide a leafy compost effect to the soil.
And the stems is to replace the woody chunks that were in the in the original store bought mix, and perhaps add some aeration to the soil.
Im trying to turn my soil into more of like a forest floor type soil by continually adding fresh compostable material as the soil gets used then recycled again.
Anyone see any harm that may come from doing it this way? My main concern is how materials decompose and become available to the plant. I recently had bad burning from using bone meal and blood meal, I'd hate to have something like that happen again.