Cooking Soil from Gfcollective's Lion n' Witch Garden

Gfcollective;2184568 said:

710420;2182583 said:

NICE! Is that sand inside your pots? Sorry for the noob question. Never seen that material in soil before. Keep up the good work brotha!

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Hello 710420 (oil spelled backwards and 420 nice)

yes that is sand inside my pot, and like soilgirl stated it is used for many benificial reasons, my main reason.. it looks like a tropical forrest

also helps with spreading the water out equally when you pore on top it will quickly spread and be absorbed where its needed. will allow for your roots to grow to the very bottom of your sand using every inch of your soil, if you use cloth pots like most mine are in your roots will grow out the sides and be air pruned, allowing for every inch of soil to be properly used. stops bugs from entering the soil (it will cut them and suffocate them). do not use regular sand without cooking it first.

to cook soil or sand, i recommend making a fire outside and having a old broken metal wheel barrow. get your fire going good, then let it settle to just coals that are nice and toasty. place your metal wheel barrow on top of this and add your soil. once your soil starts steaming, stir your soil or ( sand you may need to encase the wheelbarrow somehow for the stiffness of stiring sand) and once its all dried out and smoking (30min to a hour) depending on how wet the soil/sand is per 2.5 cubic yards of soil. this will kill any pests that you do not want in the soil. (you can do this with store bought soil if you dont trust it) as i did before making my own soil just this year.

I&i

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