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Found out my raised garden bed soil was basically dead
I was digging in my raised bed last weekend prepping for tomatoes and noticed the soil looked kinda dusty. Did a quick earthworm count from a video I found - zero worms in a whole shovel full. Turns out I haven't added any compost or mulch in over 2 years and the soil microbes probably starved. Got a cheap soil test kit from Ace Hardware and the organic matter was at like 1%. Anyone else accidentally killed their soil by ignoring it?
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diana_flores2529d ago
My raised bed soil last year had less organic matter than a parking lot, turns out "set it and forget it" doesn't work for dirt. I was thrilled to find one fat grub living in there, which I'm pretty sure was just there to mock my failed gardening efforts. We can start a club for people who slowly starved their soil to death over two years.
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the_skyler29d ago
Did anybody else not realize that "feeding your soil" means physically adding new organic stuff every season, not just watering it? I killed two beds before someone told me compost isn't optional.
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