More importantly, let’s get on with the show my brothers & sisters!!!
I wasted no time at all getting them planted in some Jiffy peat plugs that were soaked in water with a sprinkle of TM7 (micro-nutrients, humic & fulvic). The seed holes were sprinkled with VAM (mycorrhizal fungi & micro-nutrients) and the scuffed seeds were placed approximately 1/4 inch deep with some of the peat pulled over them. The lid to the container was loosely placed over the top to help keep the humidity high and the whole container was placed in a spot that will keep it at about 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
Now I’m headed to the grow shed to assemble the 4’x4’ raised bed, fill it with my compost blend (I’m tempted to call it vermicompost because it’s got 3 kinds of worms working it all the time), and sprinkle some mini white clover on it so the cover crop get’s a good start.
Copied this from my other grow journal, because it doesn’t change much!
The soil is recycled from 2 years ago, mixed with kitchen scraps and aged a year with earth worms. Amended with insect frass, rabbit manure, Build-A-Soil Craft Blend, Grow-Sil rice hull silica, BioAg TM7, Ground Malted Barley, Kelp, Organic Soybean meal, etc. and drenched in Compost Tea (brewed in a Tim Wilson bioreactor). Then topped with straw, and mini clover seeds.
The raised bed is reclaimed non-treated wood, 1"x12", pieces. The first layer is my version of “Hugelkultur,” which is all the wood/bark/branches/coco coir screened out of the compost pile after a year. The woody mass will retain water and is already inoculated with tons of good microbiology & humic acids.
Layer two is half of the soil from my last grow, which still has tons of good nutrients in it, already available to growing plants! Also, a scoop of compost, because I forgot to take the photo until I’d already started layer three.
Layer three is fresh vermicompost, with a ridiculous quantity of worms still in it (100’s)!
Layer four is the rest of last cycle’s recycled soil, with amendments (all organic covering short, mid and long term release rates), the mini clover seed added and the whole thing watered in with some em1, mammothP (I just got my sample bottle so I might as well try it), some comfrey FPJ and WSC. Then I topped the whole thing with a light sprinkling of Grokashi to help start the amendment break down process. I still need to add a thin layer of straw type material as a mulch, but that will wait until tomorrow. I keep it thin because the clover will act as a living mulch reducing the need for anymore dry mulch.
From today forward the soil will only get water, and FPJ or WSC as needed. If they look like they need a serious nitrogen dose, which is very rare, I’ll give them some dilute oceanic hydrolysate.