worm nest! worm nest! (we struck worms in the dark earth)

[alphaomega2012]

so over winter, i thought i'd take the chance to do some more superorganic gardening experiments.

last year, i tidied up the garden and began about preparing the compost for the next year (2008). So after emptying the rich produce of the year's workable compost into the raised veg beds (ready for next year) and spraying them with a good dosage of

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[yayli]

The microbe-sprayed earth looks lush! Bet you'll get some amazing veggies from that :)

intensive interest

[alphaomega2012]

well, we're certainly hoping so.

more companion planting this year, should help get the right cooperative spirit going on between the bugs and plants...

last year we planted potatoes and sunflowers near each other and couldn't work out why our spuds didn't do so well the nearer they got to the sunflowers. Over winter, whilst researching planting techniques on the net, we found out that potatoes and sunflowers are "antagonistic" to each other, which explains a lot! (who knew though, eh?).

but at least the soil is rich and nutritious this year, so fingers crossed this may be our greatest yielding year to date.

it's taken three seasons to get the soil back to a decent condition..

but soil is something you have to "build"

fingers crossed though

Do you grow anything, out of interest?
AO