3lbs Endless Soil Remixing

[dpn]

The 3 little birds did a nice article on soil remixing, they used big rubber maid containers 50 gallons i believe, after each grow they would remove the soil from roots, add some more organic amendments, or fluff up the texture if the soil was becoming compacted with perlite (or coir, peat). There were worms in the soil too doing there thing, you could add benefical mycorrhizal (sp?) and bacteria (in teas). It doesn't have to be expensive if you recycle, you can even consider going with organic soil if you live in the city with this kind of method. They believe the soil is as good or even better after being recycled many times...

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Building Better Soil - Endless Soil Remixing with the 3LB

We are about to go totally against the advice that Cervantes and Rosenthal and many others give concerning soil . . . the three_little_birds want to tell people that we ALWAYS re-use our soil . . . No soil has left the garden's of the three_little_birds since before the turn of the millennium . . .

we were discussing this among "the birds" the other nite - and one line that a little bird said comes to mind . . . "Farmer's don't strip their topsoil after a harvest - or even a few - in fact their soil is their most precious commodity - why should it be different for indoor gardening as long as proper care is taken to build healthy soil?"

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[nuggdigger]

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[c-ray]

peat is like ancient compost, a friend of mine who is big into testing compost teas and composts has found that when he studied this Alaska Humus (http://www.alaskahumus.com/about_alaska_humus.htm) product that is marketed mostly for aerated compost tea brewing he found that it is very similar to canadian prairie peat, has a similar ribbon structure...and here's the cool part...he's been air brewing compost teas using canadian peat in place of compost, well he found that peat has lots of microlife like protozoa, beneficial nematodes, flagellates (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellate) etc...

[justcurios]

Soil Rejuvination. Sounds Nice. If You Know What Your Doing. I Like The Idea. Disposal Of Used Soil Is Sometimesjust As Hard Or Harder Than Bringing In The Soil Where Stealth Is An Issue. Not To Mention Cost.