Helpful links for soil and composting questions

Here are helpful tagged pages for many soil and composting questions.

Pages tagged as 'compost' http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=compost
Pages tagged as 'clay soil' http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=clay%20soil
Pages tagged as 'soil amendments' http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=soil%20amendments
Pages tagged as 'no-till gardening' http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=no-till%20gardening
Pages tagged as 'double-digging' http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=double%20digging
Pages tagged as 'cover crops' http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=cover%20crops
Pages tagged as 'coffee grounds' http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=coffee%20grounds
Pages tagged as 'raised beds' http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=raised%20beds
Pages tagged as 'bokashi' http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=bokashi

Composting 101: http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=composting+101
Do-It-Yourself: http://www.instructables.com/tag/type-id/category-workshop/channel-compost/
Composting handbook: http://compost.css.cornell.edu/OnFarmHandbook/onfarm_TOC.html
Raw materials: http://compost.css.cornell.edu/OnFarmHandbook/apa.taba1.html
Good fungus: http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=mycorrhizae
Rock dust: http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=rock+dust
Compost bin/tumbler comparisons: http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=compost+bin+comparison
Compost mix calculator (C:N ratio): http://www.klickitatcounty.org/SolidWaste/fileshtml/organics/compostCalc.htm
Fertilizer/mulch calculators: http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/3029/
Composting with worms (vermicomposting): http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/f/wrigglers/all/
Cover crop chooser: http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/hort/faculty/bjorkman/covercrops/decisiontool.php
Biochar (terra preta): http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=biochar
Cold weather composting: http://davesgarden.com/tools/tags/tag.php?tag=cold+weather+composting

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Books on composting & soil fertility: http://davesgarden.com/products/gbw/advanced.php?category=14&submit=Go

There's also some interesting reading on soil and compost on www.thegardenofoz.org

Many thanks for this post. It is most useful!

Here is a lot of info on Bokashi.

http://bokashiworld.wordpress.com/category/bokashi-in-the-world/

Lots of great info & pages but if we could have just one thing, a tagged page or link to a list of items for each carbon and nitrogen component... A lot of reading while just trying to put the list together.

Thanks

Toxoplasmosis information from CDC
http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/toxoplasmosis/
Toxoplasmosis often shed in cat feces.

Thank You for that (scary, but important) info!

I've just added a thin layer of chicken poops with sand in my flowerbed without composting them first. I've heard that fresh chicken poops will kill plants. Opps! What should I do next? Can't go back to pick everything up.

I actually asked some of my gardener friends about making chicken manure compost. I hope this would help you
Mix 30 to 50% of chicken manure and 50 to 70% of other compost like leaves, weed, branches, and things,
Mix these into a pile and keep it for a few days. Now heat up or raise the temperature where you keep it. After three days, take the pile out and put it inside again until all the leaves and stuff becomes cooked. Now patience is more important while you do this. Repeat this process until it forms a black coloured compost and add it to the bed.

http://humminggardens.com/blog/10-smart-ways-to-prettify-your-garden/


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I have a big stand of Comfrey and add the dead leaved to the compost pile to enrich it with micro nutrients and to assist with breakdown. Everything that I have read validates this as well as the great plants that I side dress with composted Comfrey. Comfrey also has value as a topical herbal preparation. A handsome plant that attracts bees also. Note that this is from a Connecticut garden. I do have a place in Port St Lucie but have no comfrey there.

Thanks for sharing your helpful information. I'm new to homesteading and want to make own compost for chickens. I need help to make this compost, give me relevant information.

Here is a great guide on that: https://www.twinkl.co.nz/resource/making-compost-fact-sheet-t2-t-10000478