Thursday, July 16, 2015

Food and Soil Testing

The food we eat is only as GOOD as the SOIL it is growing in.

So here is a food / soil test:



Seeds have been planted in glass jars to watch what happens underground

Test

#1 Radish seeds in layers made up of compost, straw, compost, wood sticks and wood bark and compost

#2  Radish seeds in 100% homemade compost

#3 Radish seeds in Native Clay soils







Teaching jars ... The 2 jars on the right side of photo

A. Native Clay Soils for viewing


B. Composting in a glass jar so you can see the different layers
From the bottom up:
Layer 1. Dry grass
Layer 2. Chopped wet greens
Layer 3. Top soil
Layer 4. Dry grass
Layer 5. Wood ash very small amount
Layer 6. Vegetable waste
Layer 7.  More top soil   NOTE after 12 days the glass jar on the right turned to compost


Here is a photo of this
 test .