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Ya you cannot mention other sites here.......in detail or post links. You were accepted there.....btw.
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EWC slurry! or compost tea from EWC.
Yeah watch the lime bro. Love your bed. Take a gander at the biochar sticky when you got time it could be what you seek if you want to tweak, some mulch would really help your girls too.
whenever you have steep banks on fresh water, especially mud banks, wigglers are better bait than nightcrawlers.
earthworms are actually a naturalized invasive in north America. before jamestown, out forests were very different, with massive leaf drifts and a totally different ecosystem. worms changed all that by disappearing the leaves, raising pH, etc...
the worms that belong in old growth forests are very different, and there are fewer of them than you find in bacterial dominated systems.
whether it was nightcrawlers or wigglers that damaged the old growth I know not. the events are referred to in the book "teaming with microbes".
I did see that you mix your soil. You should consider letting it live maybe sometime. I think Mr Fista is experimenting.
lol------what?
If you are seeking clarification, what I meant is to use a large volume of soil as he is doing and after taking a harvest, not mix up the soil with amendments. Instead just leave the soil intact, as it is with fungal networks and hierarchical levels of microbes where they have established themselves. This is what I meant by letting it live. I believe that Mr. Fista has reported on this process/experiment in more than one thread.
We carried this out for at least 5 years employing red wriggler composting worms introduced to the soil for a week or two in between plantings to eat dead roots, poop and aerate the soil. Following this, the worms were (mostly) trapped out. We also often used EM fermentations prior to planting and topdressed organic matter (vermicompost, alfalfa meal, kelp, etc) but never dug up the soil except for planting holes. During growth we used fish hydrolysate and aerated compost tea and occasionally vermicompost slurries. We had lots of good insects, mushrooms growing; not everyone's cup of tea.
Is that what you wanted Von?
If you are seeking clarification, what I meant is to use a large volume of soil as he is doing and after taking a harvest, not mix up the soil with amendments. Instead just leave the soil intact, as it is with fungal networks and hierarchical levels of microbes where they have established themselves. This is what I meant by letting it live. I believe that Mr. Fista has reported on this process/experiment in more than one thread.
We carried this out for at least 5 years employing red wriggler composting worms introduced to the soil for a week or two in between plantings to eat dead roots, poop and aerate the soil. Following this, the worms were (mostly) trapped out. We also often used EM fermentations prior to planting and topdressed organic matter (vermicompost, alfalfa meal, kelp, etc) but never dug up the soil except for planting holes. During growth we used fish hydrolysate and aerated compost tea and occasionally vermicompost slurries. We had lots of good insects, mushrooms growing; not everyone's cup of tea.
Is that what you wanted Von?
yes it was!! Thanks for that.
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You are welcome good friend!
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