T wrote:
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I did notice that the plants did not care for the surrounding
dirt. (I would not call it soil as it has all the nutritional
content of the moon.) It was like a 12" wide by 4" deep plug
of tiny roots.

Which bring up the question, am I placing the vegi scraps
too deep to be effective?

do you have worms in any location when
you dig? are there native worms around
any place you can find some?

burying veggie scraps is better than
throwing them away any time even if the
plants may not get to them directly they
may still be getting some nutrients
indirectly (via fungi and/or worms).

feed some veggie scraps to a worm
bucket and then each planting time you
can mix the worm poo/pee in your soil
this will also have some effect through
time of getting a worm population going
if your worm species can survive your
soil/climate.

in order to get them to survive in a
pretty harsh climate they'll need places
to survive/hide from the hotter or
colder times.


songbird