Ep. 136 - Filling New Raised Beds

Purchasing compost and potting soil can be expensive and new garden beds can take a lot of soil to fill them. Plus, we’ve talked before that commercial compost often needs a little help getting the microbes up and moving again in order to make it biologically active and not just an inert material that’s not helping our plants at all. So, filling a raised bed with nothing but trucked in compost and bags of potting mix just isn’t the way to go. If you’ve gotten behind on building your beds or you’re just now deciding you need to create some, especially if you’re creating a garden for the first time, it’s important to know what to fill those beds with. 
Today we’ll talk about different techniques we can use to fill those raised beds properly so that the growing medium is not only biologically active, which is helping the plants get the nutrients they need, but also doesn’t break the bank.
Ep. 80 - Creating and Managing a Compost Pile 
Ep. 81 - Talking Compost with Stan "The Compost Man"Slaughter 
Ep. 82 - Compost Systems for Home Gardeners 
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Effect of high compost temperature on enzymatic activity and species diversity of culturable bacteria in cattle manure compost - ScienceDirect
Microbiological parameters as indicators of compost maturity | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

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