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Ask not what your soil can do for you.... ask what you can do for your soil. We've been picking, digging and pulling crops from the ground all summer. Some of us might be planning on doing the same for most of the autumn and winter. If you haven't got systems in place to replenish our soil, you'll be storing up problems for yourself later. You're … [Read more...]
If you haven't got enough materials to make compost in Wellington at the moment, you never will have. It's been wet and warm-ish so there are weeds, lawn clippings, chook manure, leaves and green manure crops to make a magnificent pile. Plus the waste from the kitchen and office. I use straw bales to surround the heap - they're easy to set up in … [Read more...]
We'll cover the relative benefits of wormeries, bokashi buckets and compost heaps on the fresh food garden course. Here's why I have a wormery and a compost heap: 1. Free liquid feed - the liquid from your wormery is nutrient rich and full of microbes to improve your soil and feed your plants 2. Reduce your kitchen waste - wormeries can … [Read more...]
I've just been reading a fascinating account of how every culture develops its own folk myths, handed down from one generation to the next in Jonathan Haidt's The Happiness Hypothesis. It seems I've been developing my own gardening myths, such as 'you can't make hot compost in small quantities'. When I applied a little more scrutiny and science, … [Read more...]
