"Billy" wrote in message
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Charlie wrote in message
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Needs some posts, or x-posts, or some kind of utilization. Waste of a
perfectly good empty lot....needs a community garden....or some
squatters. ;-)

Here ya go...... Bought some tomato plants a couple of days ago and a
few
weeks late. The Fall tomatoes I planted in August still had a few edible
ones. The plan was to plant again in whatever I could screen out of the
compost/leaf mould pile, but the new one is in an awkward place to turn
to
get to the good stuff on the bottom.
After emptying the pots, I looked at the still incredible soil and
wondered about the conventional wisdom of not re-planting in the same
stuff.
Were nutrients depleted? Would diseases appear? One way to find out......

So, taking the easy way out, I put the stuff back in the pots and
planted
away. I figure I'll make a batch of compost tea to re-innoculate anything
that's missing, and feed with the egg shell/banana peel/molasses slurry
that
I use as a good luck potion and see how it goes......

Stand back, "Fire in the Hole"!

Nice visuals........ I really need a cauldron rather than a plastic
bucket....... I just imagine all the micros getting all bathed and happy in
the nutritious goodness.......

Speaking of fire, this whole biochar thing is intriguing, and I do have an
excess of limbs and such, but I just don't know where I can fit in the time
and expertise required. That, and the smoldering fire might attract the
attention of the authorities, with their endless questions and stuff......