https://davidbach.net/wiki/ 2026-04-14T23:39:17+00:00 https://davidbach.net/wiki/ https://davidbach.net/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2014-09-24T15:45:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:compost&rev=1411573531&do=diff Compost This is magic stuff that provides a medium that the soil's micro-organisms use to loosen the soil and provide helpful “stuff” the improves fertility. I find it truly amazing how much looser and lighter soil is after applying quality compost. text/html 2015-02-23T23:54:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:fertilizer&rev=1424735658&do=diff Organic soil amendments Organic? I don't apply chemical fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides in my gardens. This doesn't certify our gardening as organic, but is is pretty close. Fertilizer recipe Steve Solomon recommends (and I follow this) his complete organic fertilizer (COF) a specific mix of seed meal, lime (agricultural and dolomite), bone meal or rock phosphate, and kelp meal. I vary the proportions depending on the plant variety and nature of the soil. text/html 2014-11-04T01:44:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:grnmanure&rev=1415065496&do=diff Green manure There is a long list of the beneficial functions of green manure cover crops. The ones I have sought are: * Suppressing weeds * Adding organic matter * Adding nutrients, especially nitrogen * Bringing nutrients from deep down * text/html 2014-09-09T14:30:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:history&rev=1410273023&do=diff History One reason I keep this wiki is to remember events and ideas from the past, not really a chronological history but a record of what I was doing, thinking and believing in previous years - and how these have changed. As quickly as garden circumstances (and weather) change I find it helpful to look back to last year and recall the rationale, for example of planting the cereal rye cover crop. There's learning in that! text/html 2015-04-25T22:53:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:propagate&rev=1430002398&do=diff Propagation Previously... In the past we started seeds for transplanting in the house. Once we transplanted these starts into pots, Maura took as many to her office as it would hold, because of the constant temperature and more sunlight through her office window. text/html 2025-07-16T07:51:42+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:pseudosoil&rev=1752652302&do=diff Soil or pseudo soil? 3-way topsoil Tagro In The Intelligent Gardener: Growing Nutrient-Dense Food, Steve Solomon's 2013 book about scientifically amending soil for nutrient- dense vegetables, I find a comprehensive and rigorous framework for providing exactly the soil and plant nutrients that each particular bed or garden area needs. See the page on text/html 2015-10-10T02:38:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:reclaim&rev=1444444707&do=diff Reclaiming soil from weeds This is about starting out with a plot that hasn't grown anything but weeds for multiple seasons. Is it best to dig it up right away? Or is there a better strategy? See the Strategy page for how I went at reclaiming soil from wildness. text/html 2020-04-04T00:49:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:remineralization&rev=1585961340&do=diff Soil remineralization [Remineralize your garden for nutrient-dense food]In The Intelligent Gardener Steve Solomon and Erica Reinheimer provide a method of identifying the needs for soil amendment and matching an amendment program for those specific needs. I'm doing my best to implement this process. text/html 2025-08-16T18:06:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:sidebar&rev=1755367612&do=diff Tasks * Home * Gardening wiki * Tasks * Propagation * Seed starting * Potting * Transplanting * Cool weather plants * Heat-loving plants * Planting outdoors * Photo gallery * Watering * When? * Drip irrigation * Weeding * About weeds * Why weed? * Loathesome weeds * Weeding * Weeding with a diamond hoe * Weeding with a diamond hoe 2 * Dust mulch * Control * Nuclear * Thistles * Harvesting … text/html 2015-04-24T14:45:33+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:water&rev=1429886733&do=diff Watering I can't provide more than a few guidelines here. Plant needs vary based on soil, maturity, environmental conditions, etc. The only way I know to provide just the right amount of moisture is to stay in touch (be intimate) with soil and plants. text/html 2014-07-04T15:54:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:weed&rev=1404489241&do=diff Weeding * Why weed? * Weeds * Weeding text/html 2014-07-17T02:53:43+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://davidbach.net/wiki/doku.php?id=garden:cultivate:tasks:weeds&rev=1405565623&do=diff About weeds This is not about weeds you can eat and how to live with weeds! Trust me! For me weeds are serious competitors for harvest of healthy vegetables. With weeds I'm really to search and destroy. Weeds from seeds It appears we're lucky when a weed has only the ability to reproduce by going to seed. These seeds go to the seed bank and germinate later, sometimes years later.