I just picked a garden spot out at my farm. It's super wet and soggy right now... I mowed over it to knock the grass down some and will start working on tilling it soon. Thinking about tilling in a bale of peat moss to help the soil out some. We have clay heavy (not solid clay but not as fluffy as I would like) soil that can always use some lime.... Only thing I'm worried about is that peat moss tends to be on the acid side.
Maybe a bag of potting soil would be better? I use pine pellet bedding for kitty litter and am planning on using the resulting urine soaked sawdust as an ingredient in the fall, till it in and let it rot over winter. I know the sawdust alone would cause nitrogen issues, but urine transforms into nearly pure nitrogen once it has a chance to do it's thing, so it should just compost in the ground over the winter and improve the soil for next year.
If I keep putting manure and the urine filled sawdust in that spot in the fall and tilling it in, it should be good for each spring and will start building up and getting fluffier.
Maybe a bag of potting soil would be better? I use pine pellet bedding for kitty litter and am planning on using the resulting urine soaked sawdust as an ingredient in the fall, till it in and let it rot over winter. I know the sawdust alone would cause nitrogen issues, but urine transforms into nearly pure nitrogen once it has a chance to do it's thing, so it should just compost in the ground over the winter and improve the soil for next year.
If I keep putting manure and the urine filled sawdust in that spot in the fall and tilling it in, it should be good for each spring and will start building up and getting fluffier.
Now that I have a rabbit I will be growing some things for him, as well as my chickens.
