GMM- how do you do your leaf mold in volume? Tarp and leave alone? Tarp and turn?
well, it's sorta morphed into less and less of a chore (I try to see on the least needed)
but after it's composted, I fill a huge ass smartpot and top it with about four layers of cardboard, that gives it enough cover to keep it from getting soaked in the storms (smartpot helps with that too), and then the womrs have cardboard to eat over the course of time, and then I just use it when needed.
Honestly it's gotten to the point of making too much, I have at least 75 gallons of it right now, and it's got bazillions of worms in it, so it's basicly a huge-ass wormbin at this point, the worms are making the humus more and more "refined"
course now it's gonna be almost purely bacterial compost, which isn't so bad.
I suppose I could throw some oatmeal in it to fluff up the fungi
But at the beginning I used to be all scientific'y about it, concerned with this and that
actually is sorta how the evolution of my growing techniques and tendencies, at the beginning you try all sorts of stuff, brewing teas for al sorts of occasions..
maybe I'm just getting old
I feel like the least path of resistance is providing me with the best results, so it does feel almost like I should be doing more, but it's simply not needed.
The fanciest thing I do now, is get those coconuts from whole foods and stab out the fresh cocowater to give my plants, but even that I only do twice a grow.
all I do is make compost now. and clone, and clone, and clone (damn pheno hunts)
oh, and buy predator mites
