Gday good people,
I’m in the process of increasing my growing space with a large raised bed garden. I’ve filled the lower third with logs, the middle section with soil from my property, some of which is a little heavy with clay, I have treated the clay with gypsum and have had 10 metres of soil trucked in.
I’ve used it in the past and it seems to be pretty much just screened composted mulch fines and little else. It’s still very warm and still composting and when it sits it forms a crust and becomes very aqua phobic.
The top 8” or so is this “soil” and I have dug in blood and bone, horse poo and some bagged water saver from the store with the big red hammer in addition to trailing digging in perlite and vermiculite to try and make the soil a little better until I can build up a decent growing medium over time.
I would appreciate any input or tips and tricks to get the best out of a bad growing medium in the meantime. It needs to be pretty cheap as I have limited funds, I’ll add a pic when I figure out how to resize the image.
cheers
Adam
I’m in the process of increasing my growing space with a large raised bed garden. I’ve filled the lower third with logs, the middle section with soil from my property, some of which is a little heavy with clay, I have treated the clay with gypsum and have had 10 metres of soil trucked in.
I’ve used it in the past and it seems to be pretty much just screened composted mulch fines and little else. It’s still very warm and still composting and when it sits it forms a crust and becomes very aqua phobic.
The top 8” or so is this “soil” and I have dug in blood and bone, horse poo and some bagged water saver from the store with the big red hammer in addition to trailing digging in perlite and vermiculite to try and make the soil a little better until I can build up a decent growing medium over time.
I would appreciate any input or tips and tricks to get the best out of a bad growing medium in the meantime. It needs to be pretty cheap as I have limited funds, I’ll add a pic when I figure out how to resize the image.
cheers
Adam