How do you store soil in an apartment?

DankTankerous said:

Assuming you’re in the states, maybe your city has some hay bales set up for Halloween/Thanksgiving. Take that shit when the season is over, don’t worry about stealing you’re doing do them a favor. But alas you can always call the city and ask I’m sure they’ll be fine with it I boil my hay for like 5 minutes and let it cool. Your worms will love the hay making the top layer really fertile. The hay is probably sprayed with pesticides, boiling them in water has to help remove them. Also worms are bioremediators, so they’ll help with residuals. Check kashi as well, I top dress with that, which provides a nice fungal layer.

Coot’s mix is a recipe from a guy named Clackamas Coot. It’s 1/3rd Canadian sphagnum Peat Moss, 1/3 aeration (preferably pumice) 1/3 really good compost ( I use my worm castings) and then a bunch of amendments. You can buy the mix from buildasoil.com or kisorganics. I mixed my own, I already had a few of the amendments and grew tired of using Fox Farms. I grew with it and it changed my life. Perfect amount (with as much as I have now) of soil solids to aeration ratio plus the high quality compost really kicks it into gear. It came for a lot of calcium and other amendments, it’s really balanced and a lot of growers use it. I do amend it but usually in Flower and I use Dr Earth’s flower fertilizer among other things. I’ll include a link, there are a couple different recipes’s some call for Crustacean/crab meal and apparently later on he nixed it? I add the crab meal in mine. The link I’ll provide is the recipe I need. Just remember organic growing is always in reach. It’s just about being resourceful… such is life.

another cool thing about Cover Crops is they attract mycorrhizae. Next grow I’ll definitely use them.

Coots Soil Mix | Organic Soil & Compost | Growing Organic

This Coots soil mix is not our own, but it is what we have found to work best for most plants. All credit for this recipe goes to Clackamas Coot.

growingorganic.com

I can’t find the website I use, but this is the recipe. The website I can’t find also called for a cup or two of charged bio char and a cup of Malted Barley Seed. I also throw a cup of kashi in there too

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Avering said:

That sounds great. I have some earthworm castings here at home and some extra soil to use that was mixed at the nursery I go to. The soil has peat moss, coconut coir, composted organic material, humus, pine bark, dolomite. I gave it some extra ewc and some perlite. I’ve heard of people using clover I believe it was as a cover crop I might do that too. And thanks for the picture, I’ll probably end up ordering some of those to try out as well!

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greasemonkeymann said:

get a bigass smartpot, and add red worms and damp cardboard on top, keeps the soil perfectly moist, doesn't go anaerobic, and the redworms will eat the cardboard and cycle your nutrients,
if it's dry inside (winter usually is) layer the soil with damp cardboard and do that lasagna style

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