Steve Paul

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Vidad MaGoodn wrote:

Out of curiosity, what does your native soil look like now?



It "looks" like this:


I took this picture from the internet.

For 20 years or so there was only weed/grass on it, if I dig a few inches there are almost no roots, no worms nothing, just earth. Which brings me to another question. Where do worms come from when there aren't any? Is it maybe a good idea to buy worms (something like those used as bait for fishing)?

I appreciate your help very much.
12 years ago
Thanks for your response.

I should have asked before, could I also use potting soil? That's something I could easily get quite cheap.

I have a lot of trees on my lot but many leafs seem to be affected by some kind of fungus. I know that it survives winter (apple scab for example). Would it be a bad idea to include this kind of material into the sheet mulch?
12 years ago
Hi guys,

I'm new to the sheet mulching concept (and gardening in general).

I'm in the process of preparing a sheet mulch. I would like to know if instead of compost I could use manure too. Reason: I get manure for very little money, compost not. The whole bed would have time to decompose until march / april (although I guess decompostion doesn't take place during freezing months?) I live in Canada.

I read that I should use 1 to two inch compost layer under the last top layer... Some articles say also I could replace it with manure, but I'm just not sure because there are so many different informations. The area to cover would be about 50 square meter (538sq ft).

Thanks
12 years ago