Is there anyone left in 2022 that is still NOT doing this

Seriously,,,
If you ever find yourself bitching about heavy clay "soils",,,

Just sayin',,,

 

I've found that it's much easier to create high quality mulch if you add more organic dead matter to the mix. I walk down highway roads at night and collect roadkill and add it to my mulch. The tomatoes you will grow from racoon carcass remains are the tastiest you will ever taste!

 

We mulch our leaves and compost our kitchen scraps. It's the only thing we can do to capture and sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
Utterly futile, like bailing out a sinking lifeboat with a teaspoon, but doing the right thing is never predicated upon chances of success.

 

In my potting mix but its all clay & sand here, gypsum just makes the adobe sparkle

 

Nutrient wise I'd love to pitch roadkill in there but in Az soils with any collagen from dead critters encourages the bug or fungus responsible for Valley fever and I'm already down to about 66% of lung function after cancer treatments so been aiming to avoid that

 

Another thing thats making some headway these days is using microalgae as a nutrient source. Been experimenting a bit and it's at least not causing any harm as yet. The other perk that dawned on me with this is that until the algae is dead and mulching your soil, it's oxygenating your root zone with it's dying breath
* Microalgal bio-fertilizers - ScienceDirect

 

Vermicompost is great stuff, I have an old bathtub I'm aiming to use for the task but for that volume I may have to find a local store to grab "past-date" produce to keep them fed.

Worms also love plowing through leaves
(Sadly I don't get many down here other than mesquite and palo verde)

 

Well, it appears they would approve

Use of cactus and vermiculture in animal feed

I'm going bathtub scale more because my real goal is to set up a roadside bait shop & cafe down by Lake Arivaca as the nearest amenities are about 14 miles away, the Vermicompost is just a happy coincidence.

Ive also had to do some adapting in the Desert without the abundance of maples, oaks and hickories in the Midwest.
Luckily I've found that what the mesquite lacks in production of abundant leaft biomass it makes up for in endless pods that are considered a superfood by some (my indoor garden included)
Trouble being the seeds can remain viable for years normally soooo, extra steps were taken,
About 6 months in the kiddy pool and I haven't found a single seed that hasn't already popped and died off

leaving behind all sorts of this nice fibrous Hummus to add to the mix after siphoning off all the nutrient rich fluid used later as compost tea following some pH balancing and additional ammendments


As an example, they say mixing DWC & soil is bad and using compost tea in such a system is futile,,, I'm not seeing it yet tbh. It's all this clone has known and it's the healthiest thing I have in dirt currently

 

Our daughters new house has no such problems since the previous owner laid concrete over the entire garden covered by artificial grass.
However, during heavy rain, the water overwhelms the drains and floods the kitchen.
I now have about 24 cubic meters of concrete to remove, before she can plant a proper lawn and grow some plants and vegetables.
Do any HF members in London have a pneumatic road drill that I can borrow for a few weeks.

 

Nope, and short of a recipe for blackpowder you might want a peek at this (and a hammer drill)

Your friend has shared a link to a Home Depot product they think you would be interested in seeing:


https://www.homedepot.com/p/Dexpan-...k-Breaking-and-Removal-DEXPAN44BOX3/204378643

 

Unfortunately, Homedepot is blocked in the UK, but we would need the type of pneumatic hammer used in road construction. The broken up concrete would then fill at least 6 skips, with a removal cost of at least £1.000
What possessed the previous the previous owners of the house to lay it puzzles everyone.

 

Try Chemical Demolition Agent: Non-Explosive Concrete Demolition

 

No but I think there are more folks thinking about it as an option these days.

Though I'd think there were communities where groups might grow a few things and internally barter their excess for what others grew to some extent