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Wow. A link to that soil test would be great - im working hard un eastern Tennessee to turn shallow dirt/shale into soil. Yeah, we have clay too, but no real soil...
Im using goats, chickens and muscovy ducks in my endeavors, but still having to fight with family members anout keeping the ground covered! I do finally have a small spot that ive had full control over for the winter, and finally able to start covering the cover crop with goat mulch/waste hay. I have a feeling that MY spot will be the best in production, even though it gets quite a bit of summer shade. The main garden has been bare all winter, despite my insisting it get covered with.. ANYTHING. Its currently looking sad, all compacted and bare 😢
Why isnt it covered? Well because, the seeder apparently doesnt do well over mulch 🙄 I guess the proof of a failure croo last year, when going against my ideas, wasnt proof enough. Another year of barely growing anything (in an ideal spot!) should prove interesting...
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Some of us DID get your chard humor & chuckled! It's like someone telling me arugula is yummy when it tastes like soap to me! !!But being an organic gardener for 49 (!!!!!) years, & living fairly close to you, we may hear back from you yet again on your roly-poly surmising once you've lived here a few more years. I have a ton of mistakes to learn by, too, one being the use of the chunky wood chips like in your videos. They may be ok for the very bottom filler of a raised bed but oh my, you are inviting trouble! I have literally ringed my little peppers & tomatoes with it, thinking too rough for slugs, snails & rollies. NOT. It is a MAGNET to draw more of them! And if you wake up super early, you will see them climbed up on said plants having breakfast. Especially the newly little humped up green bean sprouts!!I This past year I had some rancid garam masala cornmeal I'd bought in bulk & should have frozen (lesson). I ringed my little plants with it, & went down the rows of seeded greenbeans, renewing after hard rains. Voila! Lengthy post but as you say, we are all learning.
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I`ve been adding forest soil with buckets and a garden wagon, leaf mold, rotted logs/stumps, chopped mowed over leaves, pine straw, cardboard, and all my grass clippings. I discovered after moving to a rural lot in late 2022 that the soil had been bulldozed down to hard red dirt and gravel was added so I had to begin building a garden. I found some old oak firewood pieces and used that as the sides of a makeshift raised bed under my trellises to grow pole beans, cucumbers & carrots. If I see grass coming up anywhere in my garden area I dump green grass clippings on it. I have a wild bunny friend who leaves deposits in my yard. I made friends with her during the extreme drought last year. She doesn`t cause much trouble usually like the raccoon here . He dumped out my carrots in a planter recently.
So my garden area right now is getting better and better by the layers I keep adding. I also added bone meal and organic fertilizer with 20 added microbes and I burn leaves, twigs and straw in it sometimes. I mulch with grass clippings, forest soil, cardboard and leaves around my 12+ fruit trees too. I lost count. I plan to use rooted cuttings from the trees to make more. I`ve already made more fig trees and just planted mulberry and pineapple guava too. I have extreme anxiety, depression, schizoaffective disorder & PTSD plus a brain injury and damaged neck & back from a car accident. The WORST thing for me is having to go see DRs and being forced to get in cars.
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