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7 Steps to Improve Terrible Soil the Epic Way

If you're trying to fix bad soil in your garden, today's video is for you. We're shooting for a Terra Preta dark earth over time, with lots of fungal and bacterial life.This system will make a HUGE difference in spring! Start composting today - get David's free booklet: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/si... Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening: https://amzn.to/2VReBlH David's books: https://amzn.to/2pVbyro Neptune's Harvest Fish and Seaweed: https://amzn.to/3tBYpn2 Dyna-Gro: https://amzn.to/3aLS4N7 The Recipe for Solomon's Gold fertilizer mix: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/ba... The Ingredients: Biochar This biochar has been soaked for a few weeks in a combination of Dave's Fetid Swamp Water (which you can learn more about in my book Compost Everything) along with a 4x strength dose of Dyna-Gro liquid fertilizer and a similar overdose of Neptune's Harvest Fish and Seas Weed Fertilizer. Because it's charged, it won't suck up the nutrients in the soil when applied. This biochar will raise the exchange capacity of our soil - which means plants can get nutrients more efficiently - act as a battery storing needed elements, and serve as a living place for billions of soil fungi and bacteria. Biochar also sticks around in the soil much longer than compost while acting in a similar capacity. In our fall gardens, charged biochar grew sweet, delicious crops that were light years better than the vegetables we grew with 10-10-10. Bentonite: I've read about the use of clay slurries to increase the exchange capacity of sandy soils, as well as increasing the grounds' water holding capacity. It will also help the bed hold on to humus and improve soil tilth. This bentonite is just unscented clumping kitty litter, which is a cheap and easy way to get it. Solomon's Gold Solomon's Gold is a mix of macro and micronutrients which includes all 16 known elements required for plant growth as well as dozens more trace minerals found in the ocean. You can learn more about it on my website, thesurvivalgardener.com, as well as get the recipe for yourself. Plants we grew with Solomon's Gold in fall had amazing flavor. Oatmeal Though oatmeal sounds like a very strange addition to a garden bed, I added it in order to feed the fungal life in the soil. Fungi like to feed on carbohydrates and oatmeal is cheap - this is just a guess, but I think it will add more life to the ground and help cultivate the leaf mould fungi that will be added in our next layer. Leaf Mould: Leaf mould contains a wide range of microlife and fungi as well as rich humus. It will increase the soil's water retention, feed plants and increase the diversity of life in a garden bed. I hope it likes to eat oatmeal. Alfalfa Alfalfa provides nitrogen as well as other nutrients. It also contains a natural plant growth hormone that can increase the growth of your crops. As a mulch on my beds, it will also help keep the previous leaf mould layer from being exposed directly to the elements. Crops we grew with alfalfa meal tasted delicious. Mulch If we had a final layer of mulch we could add, I would add it now; however, I do not trust straw due to the risk of persistent herbicides and I don't have a good source of wood chips. Instead, we'll be growing our own cover craps and hay and if we need mulch later, we'll throw it down. I can't give you solid results on how this bed will do over time; however, I have enough data from my previous experiments to believe that it will be significantly more productive over time than unimproved soil, and definitely much better than just tilling and adding chemical fertilizer. The bentonite and the biochar should change the soil long-term. I'll bet that long after we're gone this patch of ground will be one of the best in the field. *Note: if you buy through my Amazon links, I get a small commission. This does not cost you and extra. #terrapreta #gardening #easygardening #gardeninghack