Best of all, the bacteria around the roots of the cover crop legumes gather nitrogen in a form that can be easily utilized by the cannabis plant after the cover crop is harvested in the springtime. After three or four years, the beds will become truly fertile with a living soil food web. Reduce Costs, Preserve the Planet With Living Soil Swami making his own wood chips for their garden’s living soil. If every different microbial life form in living soil remains in its optimum depth environment, the soil food web is not disturbed and fertility increases. Healthy living soil is more resistant to pests or pathogens.
Soil preparation for the garden begins in the fall at harvest time, and the process is completed in the spring. Of course, the easiest thing to do would be to run out and buy bags of different powdered nutrients, premixed fertilizers or a bottle off the shelf that has all of these nutrients in their proper proportion—and maybe even says organic on the label—but where is the fun in that?
Here at Swami Select, in California’s Emerald Triangle, we source materials as close to home as possible. We’re trying to save the planet by moving agriculture away from petrochemical ingredients and revitalizing the soil...
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