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drysift you can get screens at http://www.poconoscreen.com/ pretty cheap. Its what most of the dry sifters in the industry use. 60 lpi, 85 lpi, 137 lpi and 180 lpi is what I use. You do get a smaller yield compared to bubble Winter is coming lol. So its that time to make bubble again.

sort of. Bokashi is an imo. Has no lactic bacteria. But theres 2 brands that have lactic bacteria. Em1 bokashi which can be purchased for Build A Soil or Teraganix. or Gro Kashi which can be purchased from Build A Soil or directly from Gro Kashi.

I do ferments. I used to do even amounts of brown sugar and organic material and ferment for a couple weeks. That's the knf method. The sugars trap the microbes and make them go dormant not allowing them to multiply. Adding water to ferments allows the microbes to multiply. Also makes it...

Yes cover crops and companion crops are the same thing.They become companion crops when they aide the main plant. Those are fine. I get a mix of winter rye, field peas, ryegrass, crimson clover, and hairy vetch from David's Garden. A bokashi bucket is just compost using bokashi to speed...

Soil never gets spent. Topdress worm castings every round. Add red wiggler worms to the bed. Top dress amendments with compost or castings every other round You're good. Read up on korean natural farming and jadam natural farming if you want to take it further with ferments and imo's.

Yellow is not a burn its a deficiency. If the tips are brown and cripsy thats a phos deficincy. You didnt cook your soil long enough and the amemdments didn't break down. Water with a seed sprout tea or coconut water. Then water the next time with a compost tea. Use fish hydroslate as the food...

Water soil with labs or em1. That will kill off the pathogens creating that smell.

If you feed your worms amendments, grains, and veggie scraps. They will be full of readily available nutrients. Most commercial castings, worms are only fed cardboard and the castings have low nutrient value if any. Thats partly why with no till if you use quality castings you don't need to...

You don't. This isn't hydro with a sterile environment. You're working with living soil. Just add em1 to the resi. You can purchase that from Build A Soil or Teraganix. Make some labs while you use the em1 and when the em1 runs out the labs should be ready. Em1 is labs with other microbes...

Well I learned about No Till directly from Clackamas coots, Envocation ( formerly head treep) and Mountain Organics. Plus trial and error. For a while i was using 3/4 cup of crab shell meal per cubic foot. Then went back to 1/2 a cup of crab shell when I added karanja meal to the mix. For a...

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The whole point of no till and knf aside from being organic is to use whats around you ( sustainable practices). DEM uses a lot of fillers in their nutrient line. Results are not the greatest. Rootwise is good for their phos solubilzer microbes. You definitely need more microbes than that...

Yes grow stones will wick. Yes they will support the weight. If the tray was empty you could make a pvc frame to support the weight. That's what I do in my octo pot style sips. The grow stone method has been working pretty good for Jeremy

I see you are doing Jeremy Silva's (owner of build a soil) sip design incorporating Soma's soil bed design. No the fabric will not go bad. without net pots you must keep the tray full so water can wick up in the center. You can add net pots though. Then you wouldn't need to keep it full...

Here is a thread on everything organic that I started last night

Yes the mesh pots will be in the water. Running no till with knf / jadam practices is the only method to use with sips. Theres 2 methods of keeping the water good. 1. Air stones. Adding dissolved oxygen to the water prevents pathogens from developing. Roots grow much larger and faster. Really...

Nectar for the gods is not organic. They use calcium nitrates for the ph stabilizer.

Ive been runnung fabric pot sips for over a year now. I'm the one that introduced sips to this forum a couple years ago. Anyway I line my net pot with weed mat and use a 50 / 50 mix of pumice and coco for the wicking medium. It works really well. It prevents over saturation of soil from...

Another question I hear a lot is do you want more fungi dominated soil or bacteria dominated soil? Well you want both, balanced. Root exudates attract bacteria and bacteria attracta fungi. The fungi feed on some bacteria and regulate nutrient uptake. Another questionI hear a lot is about...

Nutrient teas. Or topdress worm castings where worms have been fed amendments and grains and veggies.