ok an exaggeration, but I'd be looking at buying 150 litres of water a week and seeing as my only problem is access to water, not water quality, bottled water wouldn't be of advantage.Quote:
Originally Posted by sarah louise
food?
Mainly compost ~
I keep chooks and pidgeons for natural manure sources (and eggs for the table) which I blend with various green waste from house and garden (with extras from a couple of neighbours), spent mushroom compost, shredded newspaper, twig and bark charcoal, small amount of blood and bone meal, dolomite, rock phosphate, seaweed extract, molasses and few chopped up carp. Giving the chooks access to the heap speeds up the process and produces a compost that would make Peter Cundell cry.
Other than preparing a bed with the compost, every second watering has seaweed extract and a little fish emulsion if the plant looks like it wants extra nitrogen and mulched with sugar cane waste, over a layer of clover hay, then top dress as necessary with lucerne pellets.
Coming into flowering I add a commercial liquid organic bloom mix to the watering schedule.
I'm going to trial one plant with a 1/2 teaspoon of molasses replacing half the seaweed extract in the watering schedule. If the results are good, it might be a way of reducing the risk of salting up the soil too much with the seaweed extract.
I don't know if it qualifies as complete nutrition, but the plants seem healthy enough.