FarmerJamie
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What did you do in your garden today?
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Trying2keepitReal
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like being able to grow/harvest all the components to make those lovely spices?
Trying2keepitReal
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Anyone use peat moss in their garden for winter? I have some that I am going to put down in the chicken run for the ladies but will have extra. Never used it before in the garden so not sure if you just lay it on top, work it in or don't use at all.
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Use it for crops that like acidic soil. The pH of peat moss should be about 4.4 but I bought some that was 3.0!
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As much as is possible. Some commercial seasonings have added stuff that rips up the wife's system
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I always worked it in. With our clay soil, heavy rain sometimes washed it off
Trying2keepitReal
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we have some clay soil at the property too, good to know!
I am on the hunt, thank you!
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Until then, there's this: https://www.paleopowderseasoning.com/
I get the Pink and AIP blends from walmart. Hubby is satisfied with Pink instead of Lawry's.
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My soil is acidic so I wouldn't deliberately add more peat moss than already tries to grow. I do add straw. The few weeds or grains that sprout have nothing on what naturally blows in and are easy to remove.
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i don't use peat moss any more. i found out that i was much better off if i could grow things myself or import local materials (wood chips and/or leaves that people were discarding, or chunks of bark from people who were cutting wood and chopping it for burning or...).
when mixed into a garden i think peat moss was ok, but on the whole replacing it with worms and worm compost and learning how to do that works much better. i don't waste any kind of organic material here if i can possibly help it. i don't do traditional worm composting with only composting worms so every time i add worms from the worm farm to a garden i'm adding a mix of worm species. some will not survive but the native worms that i include in the mix of species does add those back to the garden soil and they will gradually colonise previously very dead areas of gardens. i've had garden spaces that were covered in weed barrier fabric that used to be perennial garden where i could not find a single worm in them when turning them and i could eventually get them restocked with worms again and then keep improving the soil conditions and my worm counts. it can take a few years to see results but it does work.
(adding some worm refuge type spaces is a part of this too).
when mixed into a garden i think peat moss was ok, but on the whole replacing it with worms and worm compost and learning how to do that works much better. i don't waste any kind of organic material here if i can possibly help it. i don't do traditional worm composting with only composting worms so every time i add worms from the worm farm to a garden i'm adding a mix of worm species. some will not survive but the native worms that i include in the mix of species does add those back to the garden soil and they will gradually colonise previously very dead areas of gardens. i've had garden spaces that were covered in weed barrier fabric that used to be perennial garden where i could not find a single worm in them when turning them and i could eventually get them restocked with worms again and then keep improving the soil conditions and my worm counts. it can take a few years to see results but it does work.
(adding some worm refuge type spaces is a part of this too).
