Hey everyone. It's been a while. I have a single, hopefully simple request: can you advise about how much of this (attached pictures of earth worm compost mix) to mix in my soil?
The first question to address, how finished does this ewc look? Second, my standard approach is to sterilize all soil that is added to the grow in an oven at 200-210 for a few hours. Do other people also do this to prevent introducing pathogens?
I hope to adhere to the 1/3 compost, 1/3 aeration, 1/3 peat/coco standard, unfortunately, the way I made my earthworm compost has complicated things.
The base was coco/peat. Over time, I added pumice and rice hulls. I do not know what the ratio is of peat/coco to aeration to ewc. Can anyone let me know what you think this looks like, regarding ratios?
I have a pre-made aeration mix with 1/3 bio-char, 1/3 pumice and 1/3 rice hulls. The plan is to inoculate the aeration in a compost tea, separate the solids in the tea from the liquid, then add the solids from the tea to base soil mix, inoculating the sterilized soil and tea solids with the tea liquid.
So here's the question. I will also add oly mountain fish compost to the ewc mix to a ratio of 30%-70% to 50%-50% ( oly mountain to ewc). Regarding just the compost component, can anyone advise about a ratio for oly mountain to the shown ewc?
Once that oly mountain is added to the ewc, given the possible ratios, can anyone advise about compost to aeration to peat/coco mix?
Should I be adding in more peat?
Could I assume there are equal 1/3 parts rice/pumice, peat/coco, and ewc in the included pictures, and that this could represent 2/6 of the mix? Then, I would need an additional 1/6 of everything: aeration(rice/pumice/biochar, possibly heavy on the biochar), coco/peat, and oly mountain, with an extra 1/6 left over to fill in with any of the above.
The mix has various other amendments that I'll describe in another post. For now, I'm hoping to address this first.
Thank you to everyone that has considered this.