Reply To: No-Dig-Garden-Compost-Start?

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Thanks for the feedback. That helps.

I have ordered some seeds just to give this a try for myself and see what I end up with (if anything). It is also to test the compost I am ordering whether it is good or not. So I will do a small patch and see what happens.

Real compost here (Humus compost – ready to use) is $400 per ton. Thats what 1-1.5 cubic meters worth only. All the cheaper places I found have questionable products where the people disagree with eachother as to what they are selling. The first link I posted which looked good for $54 per cubic meter (rather than this 400 per 1-1.5) one person told me it is sitting in their bins and it is hot (thus not composted fully) and another telling me they couldn’t sell it if it wasn’t fully decomposed. Problem I have is it is screened to 15mm so has a lot of wood chip in it….

May go with the more expensive stuff as it is screened down to 5mm and is humus rich.

Anyway thats why im testing a small 4m long x 1.2m wide (4 foot) patch just to test the material and seeds i got. If i get good results through winter then i can order more and expand through spring. if it all works out dead and waste of time and money, well was an experiment to begin with and good I didn’t get a truck load.

Just like to ask one more thing.

Just looking at gardening as a way to sustain self without having to go shop and buy stuff all the time…

I can get carrots here that grow all year (so no need to buy these anymore in shop) ok… I plant 200 carrots. They grow and are ready to pick… heres my dillema.

Thats 200 carrots ready in one go. After 2-3 weeks storring them they will start going black and old.

So 200 carrots which should last 2-3months eating a few here and there ends up not working like that because there all ready at the same time so i end up with 200 carrots not knowing what to do with rather than 10 this week 10 next week 10 the week after etc to be sustainable over the year.

So what do you do? Plant a few pull them out and plant more carrot seed in their place (but then you are not rotating) or should i plant 20-30 now, 20-30 in a week or 2 and keep planting new seeds every few weeks so that one crop comes up ready to eat and few weeks later next crop etc… and do you do that with everything (beetroot cabbage spinach potato onion so on) or what?

When you go shop you don’t buy 50kg of carrots cabbage tomato etc in one go to last you 6 months. You buy a kg or 2 each week as you need so it is fresh. How do we replicate that in a garden where its ready on a weekly basis rather than all or nothing in 1 go?

Hope that makes sense