General Discussion / How to fertilize the soil
« on: October 29, 2012, 12:53:51 pm »Let's get this straight. All this Brix issue is, I believe, a question of making the soil nutritious enough for a plant, so that adding manure and adding minerals in the form of powders and mixing it all up with the topsoil around the plants once a year or so should do the trick? I am currently planning on adding a number of fruit-trees to a particular garden because such trees can go for long periods without watering and I can't be there very often. With the ones I've already planted, I've used some sort of high-tech nutrient-rich substance provided by the shop and watered extensively, but that's all so far. Since the soil is likely pretty bad(the garden is terraced all over, after all), I think I could do better. Can one buy powdered minerals like sodium or whatever from gardening centres?
@ TylerDurden, some suggestions for your fruit trees = bury road kill close by (with dirt separation from the roots to allow decomposition), or even better since you are a RAFist how about saving up your poo in buckets - that would be absolute perfection to provide the most awesome long lasting full spectrum fertiliser for your fruit trees, and is recycling at its best : )
Just cover your daily deposits with some dirt and sawdust to reduce odours, or even get buckets with lids, until you can transport to your orchard = your trees will love you for it!