Living sphagnum moss for soil mix?

[h.h.]

Along with the compost I have used a cup of oat meal, and 2 cups of worm castings and watch the soil come alive. I have just watered with "FPJ" Fermented plant juice. Take all of your plant cleanup and put it in a 5 gallon bucket fill it with water and let it set for a week or two and you will see a difference. Watch out with leaf mold if it is not completely composted it will hold too much water. Just my 2 cents.

I made a sourdough starter. It just kind of sat there, until I added oatmeal.

I use it because I understand it to be good fungal food. It seems to help with soil aggregation. It’s available and cheap.
Maybe I shouldn’t have brought up using uncomposted leaf. I use a very small amount. Maybe 5 uncompacted gallons to 100 gallons of soil before letting it “cook”. Too much and they tend to mat up.

 

[gardener60]

My neighbor has a leaf shredder he shreds 3 black hefty garbage for me. I found out if you do not shred them and wet them down it takes along time for them to break down. I have heard people say they break down in 3 months BS when i post something i experiment
and research it very well. I want to learn about the Korean natural fungal farming. I am going to do some reading on it today. This is going to be my next project because I have a Northern Light strain i want to purchase.

 

[ESTERCHASER]

hi there

hi there

Hi folks,
it's time to make a new water only soil mix.
Will use this mix

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showpost.php?p=7548410&postcount=1

With the addition of some composted grape seeds(biovin) and some long term organic fertiliser mix(bodengold) at a cup each per cubic foot.

I had good experience with it but used coco instead of the sphagnum peat moss last time.

Searching for the things i need i found living sphagnum moss claimed to be sustainable harvested. Its way more high priced than the peat, about 100.- for 125 liter, but that would be ok.

Can i use this instead of the peat version? Has anyone experience using it?

Also found inconsistent things about the living moss. Some sides say it is an acidic media(turns water sour when sitting in) some say it is a neutral media and only peated it turns acidic.

I'm sure there will be a lot of critters in it but thats ok for living soil. Also i can get most predatory mites, chrysopidae larvae or other useful insects easy from a shop if things get out of control.

You should use gloves when working with the living moss because u could get some weird fungus infecting your skin through little injuries. But one time precaution and then it sits in the pot.

I realy like the sustainability over peat and the short delivery footprint over coco but i'm not sure if my plants will like it.

What are your thoughts?

Thx chilliwilli

i used to buy bales from everywhere to find the right mix.....low and behold a neighbor had the bees knees....vermontcompost.com



elliot knows his chit! Soil blocks of fort vee cant be beat! Ill take the pepsi challenge with anyone! I grabbed a master compost cert from the local university, i finally feel comfortable giving out sound advice

 

[gardener60]

I know exactly what your mean EsterChaser. We have a Certification class starting in August 2020 I will try to make it.

 

[h.h.]

Sphagnum moss will break down.

 

[chilliwilli]

Hi folks got my sphagnum.

About 1/4 of the amount is left to play around.

The smell is great and no visible bugs till now. Will see what awakes because of the warmth.

 

[troutman]

Sphagnum moss will probably just compost away.