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Posted by Phillip Richards May 30, 2007 |
Once we were known as the TIP PEOPLE because we got up early each day and went to the local tip where we collected a Ute / truck load of green matter to take back to the farm where we shredded it and made compost.
Our soil was completely barren: the expert doing our soil analysis suggested that we make a beach resort! Compost and adding tons of organic matter was the only was we could see to develop an organic garden. We tried to be judicious as to what we collected so that we were not bringing in herbicides and pesticides and this seemed to work as our soil and plants were tested regularly.
We made compost in large piles but never turned them as we didn’t have suitable machinery and did not have time to do it physically.. It did not seem to matter.
The main trouble was simply that it was hard to keep the piles moist because of an on-going drought.