Soil amendments?

[Hit-n-Miss]

I have a spot in my woods that is always damp. And floods when the creek is high. There is black goopy mud there. It is always covered in leaves. I figure it is at least 50 years of leaf litter there. Would buckets of this goop be good for amending garden soil? Would it provide nutrients?

 

[crackerdave]

It would be a lot of hard work for very little benefit.

 

[Swamprat]

A lot of that mess has no nitrogen component or sunlight/heat so that is why it has not broke down.

Stuff like that becomes nonaerobic so basically a dead zone,







alot of that mess

 

[doomtrpr_z71]

Would it provide nutrients yes, but it wouldn't be that much compared to fertilizer, it would have plenty of microbes and such but not worth the effort.

 

[Hit-n-Miss]

Was thinking would have been helpful in my raised Hugelcultur garden experiment for breaking down the rotten wood and leaf litter. Would a little chicken poop be good to sprinkle on before I top with soil?

 

[livinoutdoors]

Was thinking would have been helpful in my raised Hugelcultur garden experiment for breaking down the rotten wood and leaf litter. Would a little chicken poop be good to sprinkle on before I top with soil?

Are you trying to find good soil to fill the bed with? How big of a hugel bed did you make?

 

[Hit-n-Miss]

Are you trying to find good soil to fill the bed with? How big of a hugel bed did you make?

It's 5' by 20' 2 blocks high. Trying to get a good soil that won't need chemical fertilizers.

 

[Hit-n-Miss]

It is currently almost full with rotten logs and leaf litter.

 

[livinoutdoors]

It's 5' by 20' 2 blocks high. Trying to get a good soil that won't need chemical fertilizers.

You wont if you tend it right. Id take that chicken manure and soak it in a few buckets. Then after a week before you add soil soak the logs with it. That'll help add some food to the logs.

 

[Hit-n-Miss]

You wont if you tend it right. Id take that chicken manure and soak it in a few buckets. Then after a week before you add soil soak the logs with it. That'll help add some food to the logs.

How full should the bucket be with poop before fill up with water? Thanks