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Gardening

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XemaSab

(60,212 posts)
Sun Aug 25, 2013, 01:51 PM Aug 2013

I need a plan for building soil fertility [View all]

We've lived here 10 years, and we've never fertilized the garden.

There are hella supplements out there, and I was thinking that this winter, I could add supplements to the garden about once a month to replace lost nutrients. I'm thinking about giving it the full spectrum of nutrients, and adding stuff to build the soil.

I want to go mostly organic/natural. (I have worm castings, but they're going on the flowers.)

Has anyone ever done this? If so, what do I use?

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In a word- ColumbusLib Aug 2013 #1
hugelkulture mopinko Aug 2013 #2
I have to agree with ColumbusLib....compost. Curmudgeoness Aug 2013 #3
Food scraps go in the worm bin XemaSab Aug 2013 #4
How big is your garden? alfie Aug 2013 #5
20x40 XemaSab Aug 2013 #7
Greensand... malokvale77 Aug 2013 #6
Remineralization for yield and better nutrition Kolesar Aug 2013 #8
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