That makes sense. I keep seeing claims of outcompeting weeds, but I haven’t seen a working model.
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I think they lessen over time and change as the soil improves. For me spring weeds are more tenacious than summer weeds. It’s like everything they go overboard with their expert claims trying either to sell a product or their services. You know the shill,“ no more pests ever.” “No more weeds.” “The biggest, the best and the most nutrient dense crop ever.”
How about, “get mineral profile balanced, try to improve biological practices and you will be surprised at how successful your garden can be.”
I mean… I do add minerals, but from tiny diluted amounts of sea water like the Koreans do. And I do ferment up some Jadam stuff… use fermented plant juice and water soluble calcium etc etc.!But nothing is making all those buttercups go away 😆 and nothing beats the aged chicken poop 💩
Chicken shit is the shit. Tons of calcium and phosphorus.
What I really wish I could find is a secret Shilajit source in the Olympic mountains. 🏔️
Humic acid, fulvic acid, complete trace mineral profile, aminos, carbs…
But I’m not about to dump the pricy stuff in the dirt.
What are we looking for? Is it just oozing out of rock.
Yep. Black goo that smells like burnt pine trees. And the way you test that it’s the right stuff is that’s its water soluble.
When I’m out looking for mushrooms with the wife she is going to get a kick out of me smelling the rocks.
What I’m baffled by is chaga. I’m not sure if the black mass I see on the Douglas first is just healed over wounds or chaga. I have chewed on some of it, but still uncertain.
I agree on improving the soil to reduce weeds. We fucked up and tried to use the pigs to knock back the weeds... I think it might have worked if I immediately put 6in of compost on the beds, but I'm still learning about all this timing shit.