Dealing with drought without watering: hugelkultur bed

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Re: Dealing with drought without watering: hugelkultur bed
« Reply #15 on: April 01, 2012, 13:03 »
Mycorrhizal doesn't really work against other plant pathogens. It's used more to develop better root systems and for those roots to better access nutrients in the soil. I always use mycorrhizal for both veg and flowering plants and you can always tell the difference when I forgot a plant.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001584/

Compost tea with benfical fungus  maybe a good alterntive, the type you make with a bubbler to keep it arobic.  FabPAD6npbU something I want to try also this year for the first time.

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Re: Dealing with drought without watering: hugelkultur bed
« Reply #16 on: April 01, 2012, 19:43 »
I have the equipment to make brewed (bubbled) compost tea, including some worm poop activator, but just haven't gotten around to it yet. The key with this stuff is that it needs to be used up within 30 minutes of  brewing or the aeration benefits are lost. Lots of interesting youtube videos on this.

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Re: Dealing with drought without watering: hugelkultur bed
« Reply #17 on: April 03, 2012, 14:29 »
I have the equipment to make brewed (bubbled) compost tea, including some worm poop activator, but just haven't gotten around to it yet. The key with this stuff is that it needs to be used up within 30 minutes of  brewing or the aeration benefits are lost. Lots of interesting youtube videos on this.

Yes I was going to use my compost heap which due to alot of kitchen waste has turned into a wormary. Still need to get the bubbler though. Some very impressive results have been reported.


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