Earth mixture for seedlings
Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2011 2:37 pm
I've still to pay anything for my garden that I started from scratch getting some earth where the was none by adding cow shit amply available in the pasture next to the garden, food scraps dug into the soil along with tree branches from a close by wallnut, footpaths dug out and the earth added on the beds around which the footpaths go, adding newspapers and cardboard as weed suppressors, sand and earth from unused piles of earth in front of the house but now I've reached a dead end. I would like to have some rich humic soil for seedlings and I think I have a solution and that would be to cycle to the nearby forest and dig up a few wheelbarrow's worth of good soil but I am just wondering if mixing it with clay would be a common sense thing to do or if it would be good as it is. The forest is made up of deciduous trees with some evergreens here and there... I do not want to use comercial acidity readers as my grandparents never even knew of those and were still able to grow some of the tastiest veggies I've tasted since and they are still able at 75+ to grow most of the fruits and vegetables they eat throughout the year.