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Thursday, August 29, 2024
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Little Ketchup
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Grittyville, WA
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More writing, just need to throw down the hand I was dealt this year and start reshuffling the deck. I need to do composting in a good way. My haphazard approach to compost is no longer good enough. There's too much weeds and disease getting through.
Part of the problem is the deciduous trees drop their diseased leaves everywhere. This, I cant control. But its really not going to be a quest to eliminate disease, (although maybe the weeping willow tree will R.I.P. soon)... its more a quest to get the non harmful organisms to always (overwhelmingly) outnumber the harmful ones. I think the healthiest thing would be to skip making any compost tea but just apply finely pulverized and fully aged compost to the soil surface and then water the soil surface just enough to activate the worms and surface roots. This first watering is to maximize the non harmful organisms and let the plants tiptoe their way into any problems. If the compost is spread around established plants (or around new transplants that are large enough to give them a healthy headstart over the weeds) then the weeds hopefully won't be too much to handle.
I've thought about making anearobic tea as a base for adding certain nutrients. Perhaps an aerobic tea could be extracted first, for use on certain plants. And then the anaerobic tea could be brewed up using the leftovers from that. The leftovers from the anearobic tea should be fairly inert? And... might be useable in a seed starting mix or a potting mix... mostly for the texture rather than for the biology or nutrients?
Lots of writing. The result of any of this reshuffling won't be apparent until next year. Its easy to reach a plateau and stay there. Its not so easy to try to go up a level.
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