![]() ![]() I publish this post in order to share with you the experiences I’ve had so that you can spend your money wisely and grow better vegetables. But until someone shows me so, there are my conclusions. Similarly, compost can be contaminated when treated foliage is added to the. I’m open to the possibility that my experiment design was flawed or that I just got a bad batch of Ocean Forest. Creating compost in our unique desert climate requires a different approach than elsewhere in the country. There are many stories of chemical applications killing neighbors trees. I don’t mean to badmouth Ocean Forest (or Edna’s Best), a product that I imagine some good people have put their hearts and sweat into making. The cheapest mix (Edna’s Best) and the most expensive mix (Ocean Forest) achieved equal results, both of which were inferior to the nearly most expensive mix (Recipe 420) and my homemade compost.įinally, I feel bad about the results of Fox Farm’s Ocean Forest mix. It seems that may have been correct, as I didn’t pack the compost into the cells in today’s experiment and my compost worked just as well as Recipe 420.īut my main take-away from this experiment is that no, you don’t always get what you pay for with potting soil and seed-starting mixes. In my previous experiment with it ( “Comparing my compost and Recipe 420 for starting vegetable seeds”), I found that it worked better than my compost and I guessed that the results were partly due to my packing down the compost in the cells. Small home compost piles often don’t have enough mass to heat up, so Daryl Beyers, who has taught gardening fundamentals at New York Botanical Garden for over a decade, composts in three. Adding some finished compost can be a great way to jump-start a new pile with healthy micro organisms. ![]() If you let your compost go cold, or if it never gets hot, it will take more time. Hot compost requires turning every one to two weeks to finish this quickly. It’s also the one I will recommend to others, as I feel it has proven itself. An active, hot or worm, compost will usually take three to six months to finish. It’s the one I will buy if I’m running low of my own compost. ![]()
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