Outdoor Jraven's Alaska Summer 2019

[hecno]

Its a Termite mound , they build them out of the soil .

 

[Jraven]

Its a Termite mound , they build them out of the soil .

Cool...I guessed right:smoking:

 

[trailanimal]

Went down the island to town for the first time since November. 120 miles the first 40 are like thisView attachment 1044210
Just a little town with a lousy hardware store and a lousy grocery store I don't have much use for town but you got to go once in a while :smoking:

I hear this, bush stores are [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] in one regard, lots of $ for lousy stuff. But the village is where the Post Office be

 

[trailanimal]

Hoy , Toughen up princes , I had 20 years of 250 km of dirt roads to get to the nearest big town .

looks like it might get sticky during the rainy season

 

[trailanimal]

Besides "teaming tea" and biochar what else did you do do to your soil for this season?

 

[Jraven]

Besides "teaming tea" and biochar what else did you do do to your soil for this season?

To some extent I took a hands-off approach. The soil test results showed very high in all the basics and the micronutrents except nitrogen and boron(not sure how this came about) so I cut it a bit with pro-mix and some native soil (from under a blow-down tree) that I added lime to. I added some boric acid.
I added feather meal,EWC both fresh and bagged, a little composted cow poo, crushed malted barley. The live tea and biochar were added 2-3 weeks ago and I'm trying to keep it warm as possible now.

 

[trailanimal]

To some extent I took a hands-off approach. The soil test results showed very high in all the basics and the micronutrents except nitrogen and boron(not sure how this came about) so I cut it a bit with pro-mix and some native soil (from under a blow-down tree) that I added lime to. I added some boric acid.
I added feather meal,EWC both fresh and bagged, a little composted cow poo, crushed malted barley. The live tea and biochar were added 2-3 weeks ago and I'm trying to keep it warm as possible now.

Sounds ready for the spring microbial explosion

 

[trailanimal]

To some extent I took a hands-off approach. The soil test results showed very high in all the basics and the micronutrents except nitrogen and boron(not sure how this came about) so I cut it a bit with pro-mix and some native soil (from under a blow-down tree) that I added lime to. I added some boric acid.
I added feather meal,EWC both fresh and bagged, a little composted cow poo, crushed malted barley. The live tea and biochar were added 2-3 weeks ago and I'm trying to keep it warm as possible now.

Sounds ready for the spring microbial explosion

 

[Jraven]

Sounds ready for the spring microbial explosion

I sure hope so I'm always a little nervous about it this time of year

 

[Jraven]

Here's the weeks forecast. Our low is generally a couple degrees higher