#RedClover is one of the plants I'm using for ongoing, longterm, #SoilRemediation efforts. Great nitrogen fixer & pollinators love their pretty pink flowers too.
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Last day off work & I have soil work to do in backyard. After aerating grounds, I'm sowing fava beans & alfafa seeds over the area that I started remediating work on last Summer.
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Part of the backyard area that I did a bunch of sheet & organic materials mulching over last Summer is doing very well. I'll be doing some light hoeing work on that area, once the recent snow melts off. Once I get that ground broken - I'm adding seaweeds, eggshells, tea/coffee grinds & used aloe leaves, all mixed in with free topsoil, over the whole area.
A few of our #cucumbers are still growing.
Some large Oregon #snowpeas.
Ongoing soil remediation project is making slow & steady progress. Cardboard, topsoil, compost, woody debris, crushed seashells, seaweed, grass cuttings, leaf mulch are all breaking down together nicely.
Backyard remediation project update.
3rd batch of snowpeas sowed are producing peas. Cucumbers are still coming out. Cherry tomatoes are nearing end of fruiting. More compost, lawn cuttings, leaf mulch & topsoil added to cardboard sheets. The sheets are breaking down slowly now.
Still laying down #cardboard over areas of backyard former lawn for #SoilRemediation & #rewilding longterm project. Threw down some compost, leaf mulch & unsifted soil atop. Adding more over weekend. Getting seaweed from some beaches in the new week to mix into compost & unsifted soil.
Backyard update.
Our #apples are ripening & will be ready for first harvest of this Summer, by next week. We're donating half of our apples harvest to a couple of small community food banks/community kitchens who distribute fresh foods/feed the houseless.
More of our roma #tomatoes have fruited.
Laid more cardboard down for ongoing #SoilRemediation & longterm backyard #rewilding project. I need to pickup more free cardboard from grocery stores.
#HealAll - #PrunellaVulgaris
#WhiteClover - #TrifoliumRepens
Both are #edible & #medicinal #plants. Both are much better than lawn grass. They attract a lot of #pollinators
Heal all is used in a lot of #ChineseTraditionalMedicine & #Chinese #HerbalTeas. Wong Lo Kat is a commercial canned herbal tea with heal all as a main ingredient.
In North America, the #Nlakapamuk #Salishan #Indigenous peoples make cold infused, refreshing drinks with them. Several other #FirstNations in #BritishColumbia & #PacificNorthwest areas also harvested it for medicinal uses.
3 years ago, this patch was almost all hard clay & only thing that grew was lawn grass. I've spent lots of time/effort remediating the soil as part of my longterm #rewilding personal project.
This patch is now doing quite well & has many different perennial & some edible #plants growing out of it.
Wearing my fave boots & pants again. Both are super comfy & both are my fave colour - #purple 
Side of backyard #SoilRemediation area is doing well! My cover crops mixes are choking out the fugly colonial non-native grass. I have native grasses in my homemade mixed cover crops mix. This area that I'm standing on was dead zone for years because of hard clay blocking plant growths. It took me 3 yrs to get soil healthy enough to grow more diversity!
Some things just *don't* biodegrade well here, and part of it is that we're still perfecting our composting workflow and making sure our heaps don't overdry and die in our arid environment. We're getting better all the time, and it's a learning process. But in the meantime, I've been doing a lot of research on biochar. Most of the USDA fact sheets only talk about using biochar from wood or agricultural "wastes" like cornstalks, straw, etc. However, I know for a fact that in much of South America it's common to burn animal bones, manure, and more.
So, talk to me about biochar! Do you use it? What do you burn? What have your results been? Do you combine it with other soil remediation tactics (compost, compost teas, etc.)?