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it was you and others posting threads in this forum that got me started. all the talk of living soils and stuff got me reading up on how plants actually feed, which got me reading up on soil microbiology, etc. after that it seems the only way to go.
i'm not getting huge yields at the moment but it seems to be improving but most of all i'm pretty happy with it. it seems comfortable, if you know what i mean.
the plants all do the lifted leaves thing which i've never had happen before and look good, i'm growing more than i can smoke, which is about two grammes a day, i've got nothing to dispose of, i'm doing a good thing environment wise, it's dead easy and turns out quite fun too. i love my worms. we're a team. we work for each other. i also love my soil and should end up with nearly two hundred litres of it cycling round.
just typing that made me make the noise that sheriff rosco p coltrane would make when he thought he had got one over on the duke boys.
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also the reason i think i had a drop in yield is tapwater. i always watered straight from the tap but would draw from the hot tap and get a few litres before it got too hot and had to be cooled with some cold. this way i reckoned it would be fairly chlorine free. obviously this is a shockingly lazy way of doing things but with ordinary nutes it didn't seem to matter as much.
it took me a while to realise that this could be killing the very reason i switched in the first place. now soil life is at the centre of my thoughts so it's water from the hot tap left overnight then bubbled for a few hours. sometimes with a bit of leachate in.
the joy of the perpetual is that you can keep tinkering with the production line and see results and act on them far quicker than growing all your plants at the same time.
it took me a while to realise that this could be killing the very reason i switched in the first place. now soil life is at the centre of my thoughts so it's water from the hot tap left overnight then bubbled for a few hours. sometimes with a bit of leachate in.
the joy of the perpetual is that you can keep tinkering with the production line and see results and act on them far quicker than growing all your plants at the same time.
lol! that's the one!
i make that noise everytime i open the cupboard door or drain leachate from my bin.
Volcanic or glacier Rock Dust is widely availble in the UK, good option.
Thinks its very similar, just that Azomite is trademarked and rock dust cant be called that if it isnt from Utah, same as the champagne scenario.
cheers!
might be good for the worms as well as they need a bit of grit in there for their gizzards.
depends on the price though. worm castings seem to have everything in them anyway so if it's expensive i might not.
might be good for the worms as well as they need a bit of grit in there for their gizzards.
depends on the price though. worm castings seem to have everything in them anyway so if it's expensive i might not.
its cheap, elixir gardens on the famous auction site, £4 quidish
from world of worms, http://www.worldofworms.com/chemical-side-of-worm-casting/
"Just to give you an idea, here is an example of the percentages and composition of nutrients and minerals in vermicompost:
• Organic Carbon 20.43 – 30.31 %
• Nitrogen 1.80 – 2.05 %
• Phosphorus 1.32 – 1.93 %
• Potassium 1.28 – 1.50 %
• Carbon : Nitrogen 14-15 : 1 %
• Calcium 3.0 – 4.5 %
• Magnesium 0.4 – 0.7 %
• Sodium 0.02 – 0.30 %
• Sulphur Traces to 0.40 %
• Iron 0.3 – 0.7 %
• Zinc 0.028 – 0.036 %
• Manganese Traces to 0.40 %
• Copper 0.0027 – 0.0123 %
• Boron 0.0034 – 0.0075 %
• Aluminium Traces to 0.071 %
• Cobalt, Molybdenum Present in available form"
"Just to give you an idea, here is an example of the percentages and composition of nutrients and minerals in vermicompost:
• Organic Carbon 20.43 – 30.31 %
• Nitrogen 1.80 – 2.05 %
• Phosphorus 1.32 – 1.93 %
• Potassium 1.28 – 1.50 %
• Carbon : Nitrogen 14-15 : 1 %
• Calcium 3.0 – 4.5 %
• Magnesium 0.4 – 0.7 %
• Sodium 0.02 – 0.30 %
• Sulphur Traces to 0.40 %
• Iron 0.3 – 0.7 %
• Zinc 0.028 – 0.036 %
• Manganese Traces to 0.40 %
• Copper 0.0027 – 0.0123 %
• Boron 0.0034 – 0.0075 %
• Aluminium Traces to 0.071 %
• Cobalt, Molybdenum Present in available form"
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