I have a couple funky fungi affecting my birdhouse gourds and cucumbers, tried some LAB as a foliar application and soil drench, seems to be helping, unfortunately some plants were too far along. I am hoping adding a lot of my home grown vermicompost will increase the protozoa in my garden soils, need to check with my scope and see how it is working, the plants seem to be doing fine. Stay Well!!!
rather than focus on F:B ratios, it mite help to encourge all tropic levels, a protozoa straw brew would help, if you beef up the favorite food of worms they can do the heavy lifting, clay can be some of the best soil if your Ca:Mg ratio is in order, I've had fewer problems in clay than in loam/sandy loam.
For sure, I didn't see any protozoa. This bed did get the thinnest layer of my compost this year. Figured sorghum grass didn't need much but evidently the soil food web is not balanced. My clay does well in places but its usually orange or tan, this clay is grey.
@@ShootingtheSoil have you done a jam jar test on the two diff colour clays? I've had orange/tan loam that I was convinced was clay (slick/clumpy when wet, hard as iron when dry) until I did the test and marked up the texture triangle, if the Ca/Mg ratio is way out initial intuition can be way off, I've also seen sandy loam behave like clay! Either way if it's hardpanning it's going to be your major limiting factor, you can do a simple penetration test with an iron rod, roots can't get through if you need to apply >150 psi, if you put both feet on a garden fork and it doesn't sink right in that's a big clue too.
@@glassbackdiy3949 The jar test would work well here to compare. I usually just look at my test tubes after they settle. Don't see any sand in the bottom, the grey sentiment is 1st noticeable layer in the tube. Be cool to mix the two clays and see what one was heavier in a jar! I'll post a shot on Instagram
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I have a couple funky fungi affecting my birdhouse gourds and cucumbers, tried some LAB as a foliar application and soil drench, seems to be helping, unfortunately some plants were too far along.
I am hoping adding a lot of my home grown vermicompost will increase the protozoa in my garden soils,
need to check with my scope and see how it is working, the plants seem to be doing fine.
Stay Well!!!
rather than focus on F:B ratios, it mite help to encourge all tropic levels, a protozoa straw brew would help, if you beef up the favorite food of worms they can do the heavy lifting, clay can be some of the best soil if your Ca:Mg ratio is in order, I've had fewer problems in clay than in loam/sandy loam.
For sure, I didn't see any protozoa. This bed did get the thinnest layer of my compost this year. Figured sorghum grass didn't need much but evidently the soil food web is not balanced. My clay does well in places but its usually orange or tan, this clay is grey.
@@ShootingtheSoil have you done a jam jar test on the two diff colour clays? I've had orange/tan loam that I was convinced was clay (slick/clumpy when wet, hard as iron when dry) until I did the test and marked up the texture triangle, if the Ca/Mg ratio is way out initial intuition can be way off, I've also seen sandy loam behave like clay! Either way if it's hardpanning it's going to be your major limiting factor, you can do a simple penetration test with an iron rod, roots can't get through if you need to apply >150 psi, if you put both feet on a garden fork and it doesn't sink right in that's a big clue too.
@@glassbackdiy3949 The jar test would work well here to compare. I usually just look at my test tubes after they settle. Don't see any sand in the bottom, the grey sentiment is 1st noticeable layer in the tube. Be cool to mix the two clays and see what one was heavier in a jar! I'll post a shot on Instagram