A Seed Saver's Garden

[heirloomgal]

My amendment list has settled down the last couple years and what you see here goes on everything i grow. Every 3x12 bed gets a 2 gallon bucket and Onions and Potatoes get 2- 2gallon buckets! This year im adding the ground Comfrey and each bed will get a measured 2lbs along with the other stuff. That amount will fluctuate depending on how much the Patch produces each year.
No peppers of any kind anymore.

Sorry to clutter up your stuff, thought you may be interested in some of it. Glad to see the previous info found a good home!

Mike

You have never cluttered up my stuff @Alasgun
I appreciate the amazing depth of knowledge you have about organic amendments. I hope I can level up to that some day!

 

[Alasgun]

Well, here’s the thing. About 10 years ago while Alaska was considering legalizing pot and relaxing restrictions on small growers; our State Fair invited in some guest speakers. I assume these folks task was to sway public sentiment in their direction before the vote. I found myself at a booth where the lady who put all that on was seated and we had some good conversation. She told me “whether you grow pot or not you should study up on some of their methods as a lot of these kids are regular scientist!”
Well; i headed her advice and took what i learned and applied it to my own gardening.
A lot of those growers will go to the outer limit of sanity with various soil mixes and several talk about their “super soil” and variants of these grow mediums. The microbiology aspect was another big learning event for me.
It doesn’t take much adapting to find ways to incorporate these things into “regular gardening”, which is what ive done.

1. Using the elements from the super soil recipes gave me a basis for my amendment schedule that i’ve adapted for my use.
2. Learning the important part the microbes play AND having the ability to modify or enhance they’re populations in all my soils was huge also. As a result of that knowledge; now days i completely ignore anything to do with P.H.
I don't care what it is, never bother to check it and never see any indication something is amiss in my plants, knowing that my little bug buddies “got my back”!

Anyway, another long winded didy but it’s all food for thought!
Mike