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Clumpy compost, and roots in compost pile
While I've had some success at making compost, the stuff I make in the rotary composter is never the nice, smooth, runs-through-your-fingers stuff that I buy locally. When using the rotary composter, I get large clumps that are hard to pull apart when wet, and form hard lumps when dry. I can pull apart the wet clumps with…
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Vermicomposting
I recently started growing microgreens and saw an article about how you can vermicompost the left over roots and soil to make new soil for growing your microgreens and the process is a lot faster than regular composting. I'm interested but have no experience with vermicomposting. I'm hoping once you get past the learning…
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Cover Crop Options
Within the last few months we have had several discussions on this forum about winter cover crops. Several people were not familiar with them and did express an interest. For the last week or more I have been checking all my regular seed suppliers trying to find someone who still has some field oats seed in stock since I…
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Tea bags in your compost?
What is your experience? Until recently I've always composted my tea bags - despite the jokes. For 30 years there have been jokes in Europe about recycling: tea in the compost, the paper tag into the recycled paper, the staple into old metal, the cotton string - you get the drift. To my horror the bags now appear to really…
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Course Nutrient Dense Soil
I've recently finished this course and asked a question in there but wasn't sure that questions get noticed in the courses. I'm new so be kind 😉 In the last lesson it mentioned when you add fertilizers to your soil it disrupts the web. Does this apply to things like neem meal, blood meal, bone meal or the Dr. Earth…
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Should I use rock dust in desert soil
I am a newbie who had a disaster for my first years garden so I don't want a repeat. I live in the desert which I have heard has alkaline soil. There seems to be controversy on whether rock dust is beneficial. First some say the calcium in rock dust will break down more quickly then the other nutrients which will make the…
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Lizard Poop/Substrate in Compost
So I have a bearded dragon with sand substrate. I have searched on google with mixed results on if their poop and substrate can be composted? My beardie in particular has a pretty high ratio of fruits and veggies in her diet as well as crickets and gut loaded meal worms. Anyone have any info on this or have composted…
