by David The Good
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I received a comment today on my popular Terra Preta video:
Did you catch that? Ashes and charcoal, chicken manure and fish guts. That’s some highly fertile material.
Incidentally, all those amendments are free.
We managed to hit over a ton of food from a garden of less than 1/3 acre, feeding with ashes and cow manure. If we planted two acres, we’d be in trouble.
You don’t need fancy amendments to grow food.
I’m David The Good, gardening author, homesteading, survival gardener, nursery owner and plant geek. Let’s grow some food!
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I’m gonna dig a burn pit this weekend, we have lots of leaves and tree trimmings to reduce to biochar.
We mixed biochar and alfalfa pellets and added it when we planted potatoes this spring and they are thriving.
Threadfin shad come shallow to spawn this time of year. I went out over the weekend with my net and caught a bucket-full to bury around my tomatoes and watermelons. Cheap and easy fertilizer!