You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
RE: My garden goes to sleep, it's winter...
Great photos and garden :) I would be happy to have some like yours. Greetings from Germany!
Great photos and garden :) I would be happy to have some like yours. Greetings from Germany!
Hey. Thank you 😊
Do you grow anything?
just a few tomatos, 1 cucumber, chilis and 1 zucchini as you can see here https://www.instagram.com/chili.heads/ :)
Very nice garden!
How do you find the air pruning pots?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BjyPo37lll8/?taken-by=chili.heads
I really like the exploding growth of the roots in the airpots, but a clear disadvantage is that the soil is quicker getting dry in comparison with a closed clay pot. Maybe I would need perlite or an automated irrigation system...what do you think? Hydroponic could be also nice. Just checked out your nice worm page...this is a nice composted soil, right? I also thought about to breed worms a few years ago for fishing, because they are really expensive to buy in the shop and there is continous need here. And black cotton soil (terra preta) must be also a very nice soil. Damn I should settle in a warmer country to farm the whole year...
I use grow bags (root pouches) that have the same effects. Yes, they dry much quicker. I use coco coir + Zeolite (porous rockdust) which are both absorbing material instead of perlite. But it still would benefit of a drop irrigation or something.
Yes compost (worms and traditional) is part of my recipe to make my potting soil.
Over here I fish salt water mainly and go catch Beach worms for bait:
I love coco coir especially for seeding, too. Holy shit, these Australian worms are aliens..be careful^^! We can buy here the Canada Nightcrawler in fishing shops. How I catch the worms: dig with a shovel into the soil and shake a bit so they come to the surface.
We also have the Alabama Jumpers here in Oz. My garden has plenty of them. I've not tried them in salt water tho.