FIWH's adventures with lacto bacillus and fermented ferts

[forgetiwashere]

Soil growing is still like voodoo to me. Some sort of mysterious black magic. If you want to see organics at its finest and learn good soil mixes check out lefty's grows over at the other site ryan.

 

The dude is a ganja god and my own personal guru. I cant even describe in words how awesome lefty is.

[ryanme1234]

I'm on it

[Frank Reynolds]

Growing in the ground, all about learning to make your own compost!!

[forgetiwashere]

yep thats what im finding out frank. good compost full of life

[ryanme1234]

The thing I learnt with outdoor planting was the best compost came from your own place no matter how good you make it u can't beat the stuff that came of your property and I know with us down the farm our compost was #1 priority the weeds local to your area was the secret ingredient..

[Frank Reynolds]

Yep, and it really isn't that hard to get it set up.

 

I've made a 3 bay composting section at home, out of free old wooden pallets, can produce well over 1m2 every few months out of scrap products.

 

The hardest thing is getting ratio of carbon to nitrogen right, and even then you don't need to be perfect at all. 

[ryanme1234]

Yep, and it really isn't that hard to get it set up.

 

I've made a 3 bay composting section at home, out of free old wooden pallets, can produce well over 1m2 every few months out of scrap products.

 

The hardest thing is getting ratio of carbon to nitrogen right, and even then you don't need to be perfect at all.

We make ours in big mounds up the driveway.. here's the pumpkins with our own compost http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/08/05/780ab52bf1aac98ba68510df64f181da.jpg

[itchybromusic]

Not Mucken round there Ryan , good stuff

 

Just thought i'd put up a pic of what i saw at lights on today

This is Sweet Seeds Cream 47 

 

& this a Southern Star Schooly D   Mutant Blueberry Headband in the back ground 

 

But this is what caught my eye today all over the outside of the geopots  

 

to say i was a little freaked out would be an under statement , but after a couple of deep breaths I had a closer look

Now i'm not saying i know exactly what they are but pretty sure there a soil mite, which for those that have a compost or worm bin might recognise

slower moving tiny white buggers , they are decomposers http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/insects/soil-mites-info.htm

 

So if you plan to go the rout of trying to use the soil food web as your basis for your growing these are the things you can expect to see along with

worms in your pot when using home made compost / castings , first line of indigenous inoculation, home made compost , home made lacto serum (LAB) ect

 

Once again I'm still a little nervous about seeing these things & will be for days to come as I'm sticking to my schedule & doing nothing to disturb 

the soil mites , YET ! , taking a bit of a risk hear only because of lack of knowledge but I'm seeing no flyers anywhere so I'm ruling out gnats because 

to see that many moving white spots on the sides of the pot & not see any flying about the place , helps to make me a little confident & the plants look as good as yesterday

but will see what tomorrow brings ,

 

also might try a tip to check for fungus gnat larvae , slice a 1/4 off a potato & lay it wet side down on the soil surface for 4 or 5 hrs then have a look 

the fungus gnat larvae will be attracted to the potato & should be stuck all over it if you have them in your soil   

 

Cheers 

Y'al

Edited August 5, 2015 by itchybromusic

[ryanme1234]

Not Mucken round there Ryan , good stuff

 

Just thought i'd put up a pic of what i saw at lights on today

This is Sweet Seeds Cream 47 014.JPG

 

& this a Southern Star Schooly D 017.JPG Mutant Blueberry Headband in the back ground

 

But this is what caught my eye today all over the outside of the geopots 009.JPG 008.JPG

 

to say i was a little freaked out would be an under statement , but after a couple of deep breaths I had a closer look

Now i'm not saying i know exactly what they are but pretty sure there a soil mite, which for those that have a compost or worm bin might recognise

slower moving tiny white buggers , they are decomposers http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/plant-problems/pests/insects/soil-mites-info.htm

 

So if you plan to go the rout of trying to use the soil food web as your basis for your growing these are the things you can expect to see along with

worms in your pot when using home made compost / castings , first line of indigenous inoculation, home made compost , home made lacto serum (LAB) ect

 

 

Once again I'm still a little nervous about seeing these things & will be for days to come as I'm sticking to my schedule & doing nothing to disturb

the soil mites , YET ! , taking a bit of a risk hear only because of lack of knowledge but I'm seeing no flyers anywhere so I'm ruling out gnats because

to see that many moving white spots on the sides of the pot & not see any flying about the place , helps to make me a little confident & the plants look as good as yesterday

but will see what tomorrow brings ,

 

also might try a tip to check for fungus gnat larvae , slice a 1/4 off a potato & lay it wet side down on the soil surface for 4 or 5 hrs then have a look

the fungus gnat larvae will be attracted to the potato & should be stuck all over it if you have them in your soil

 

Cheers

Y'al

We have a crack mate but this is our main crop http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/08/05/cfbb35212ef44aad2c9860e73fd758ed.jpg

[forgetiwashere]

Yep, and it really isn't that hard to get it set up.

 

I've made a 3 bay composting section at home, out of free old wooden pallets, can produce well over 1m2 every few months out of scrap products.

 

The hardest thing is getting ratio of carbon to nitrogen right, and even then you don't need to be perfect at all. 

 

do you mulch up your material before composting and what do you mainly use for brown material. green material i ca get in spades but the brown material im thinking will be harder to come by in my yard. maybe just straw?