Soil improvement for summer vegetables

Soil improvement before planting next vegetables is one of the most important jobs for me. Today I bought some packs of fermented cow manure and lime powder for mixing them into the soil of a planting space, where next summer vegetables will be planted. In addition to those packs, I brought a pack of my homemade compost. All of those stuffs can work in the soil with producing nutritious after mixing them with soil, which is the hardest chore for me.


This is our homemade compost. My wife throws everyday leftover, perishable garbages like chopped vegetables into a vinyl bag where they can be fermented. It looks ugly but very nutritious to my vegetables.


When I use the compost, I always mix it with water to make it smooth. The original compost is too sticky for me to spread it onto the whole planting space.


After I added the cow manure, lime powder and compost solution, i had to do the most painstaking job, cultivating the soil to mix all of them. I have to cultivate soil deeply and thoroughly in order to distribute lime powder, manure and compost evenly among the soil.


Eventually, I cultivated the space, about 32 square feet, for 30 minutes! I totally got tired! But the hard work will lead me to bumper harvest of tomatoes, cucumbers and eggplants in this summer, I believe.

Today's mixture ratio for 32 sqf:

1 lime powder/300GR
2 fermented cow manure/1.5L
3 homemade compost/500Gr



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