Compost Tea – The Sustainable Smallholding http://sustainablesmallholding.org Permaculture, and Sustainable practices on a Lincolnshire Smallholding Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:43:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.3 44677425 Fungal Compost http://sustainablesmallholding.org/fungal-compost/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/fungal-compost/#comments Thu, 09 Oct 2014 22:01:34 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4272 Making a more fungal compost has been an aim of mine for some time. One of the ways that I do that is to not make ‘hot’ compost, keep the proportion of high carbon materials high, and to not turn unless it’s needed. However recently I set up a truly fungal mix of ingredients and […]

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Potato Blight and Compost Tea http://sustainablesmallholding.org/potato-blight-compost-tea/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/potato-blight-compost-tea/#comments Sun, 06 Jul 2014 23:15:24 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4241 I hadn’t intended writing a post on potato blight and compost tea to end my posting drought, but I had the opportunity to record the effect of using compost tea on blighted potatoes, and decided to run with it. Please note that if you’ve found this blog searching for remedies or preventative measures to combat […]

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Rockdust, Glacial Milk, and Plant Nutrition http://sustainablesmallholding.org/rockdust-glacial-milk-plant-nutrition/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/rockdust-glacial-milk-plant-nutrition/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2014 21:57:20 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4208 I’ve been using rockdust as part of my soil balancing strategy, as well as an ingredient in my potting mixes. In addition I’ve been mixing rockdust into my poutry food, adding it to my wormeries, and compost heaps, but over the last couple of weeks I’ve been using the rockdust in a liquid suspension, to […]

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Chromatography, Soil fertility, and Biodynamic Agriculture http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chromatography-soil-fertility-biodynamic-agriculture/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/chromatography-soil-fertility-biodynamic-agriculture/#comments Sat, 28 Sep 2013 21:15:56 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=4056 I have spent a bit of time exploring paper chromatography as a means of testing the quality of soil and compost, thanks to the help of my friend Nigel. Now I’m not planning to explain what it is all about. Those of you who have stuck with my blog are quite able to find that […]

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DIY Soybean Inoculant http://sustainablesmallholding.org/diy-soybean-inoculant/ http://sustainablesmallholding.org/diy-soybean-inoculant/#comments Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:47:33 +0000 http://sustainablesmallholding.org/?p=3986 My DIY Soybean Inoculant experiment was designed to create my own inoculant, to save having to order fresh commercial soybean inoculant each year. I described my reasons for conducting the experiment in my last post, Soybean Inoculant Experiment First Results. DIY Soybean Inoculant Method To create the inoculant I took an existing method for producing […]

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