Winter prep for spring!

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Yes, it’s bed-prep time and the bed in question is this one that I did a “sweet corn experiment” in last year:

The corn and onions were fabulous tasting and all that I did to the area was a little dry molasses to fire up the biological activity, some compost tea mix, and native shredded tree trimmings for mulch, which since decayed down into a wonderful layer of compost after a year.
This weekend, I will be adding some of this:

What we have here is a huge bag of earthworm castings, a bag of “green-sand” that turns alkaline soil a tad more acidic and releases more available iron to the plants root systems. The 1 gal jug in the middle of the photo is a concentrated mix of compost tea, liquefied sea-weed, molasses, and apple-cider vinegar that is great for use on any plants.

More amendments will be added after this first mix “cooks” over the winter, such as “lava-sand”, zeolite, expanded shale, and decomposed granite..

Any suggestions on “test plants” to try in this area?
Half of it will be devoted to bell and banana peppers so that leaves about 50 sq. feet to “play with” and grow record breaking size plants of any verity. {grin}
_N2O

• 17 Dec, 2010
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