dyslexia wrote:msolga wrote:Now I'm feeling nostalgic & missing my chives, osso.
It being winter here. I'll have to wait a few months for them to reappear in my garden. I use them all the time in summer & autumn. Love em!
Thank god for parsley!
I wouldn't feel great about using fertilizers often, either ... not the non-organic varieties, anyway. Yeah, go with the compost ... maybe in containers, so they don't escape into the sand so easily. Any good, not too expensive sources of horse/cow/animal manure around?
I like the basic ingredients of the soup, too. Now I'm going to have to think about growing my own cress. Generally not marketed here. Wrong climate, I guess?
Since we first moved here I have been adding composted steer manure plus simple kitchen compost/scraps not digging it in but just layering it on top of the sand along with potting soil, microbial action seems to be working magic.
Well, it's obviously worked! Really well, judging from the photographs you've posted here. Gosh.
I've taken to throwing vegetable scraps straight onto the garden, too. With abandon! Oh & lots of big bags of mushroom compost have been added to the soil, too. I have the opposite problem to you & osso: Very clay-ey, alkaline soil, which can become as tough as concrete during these hot, dry summers we've been having. Amazing that plants can survive, some even thrive, in conditions like this.
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