I ought to be digging ...

[GYOMalcolm]

... but I've got a frozen shoulder, which means I have time to think about the garden while it goes to ruin / looks after itself.

My dear and I have patch in Berkshire on chalk with clay pans, with house and trees in the wrong places, but hey, it just means I have to think more. Right now I'm thinking about soil regeneration, even building up a new soil on top of the bad bits. So I'm into stuff like biochar and terra preta, bokashi and h�gelkultur. Amazed at what previous generations knew and we've forgotten or ignored.

[Bigmallly]

Hello Malcolm & welcome to the vine, check out "Back To Eden" gardening.

[Jay-ell]

Hello again Malcolm and welcome.

I can see you're into the bokashi. I bokashi my kitchen waste as well, adding the fermented matter to the compost.

As the bokashi juice is acidic do you think that it would be a good feed to maintain the acidity of a blueberry bed or would the pH level out and sulfur is still needed?

I usually dilute it quite a bit for other plants but was thinking that blueberries /cranberries would be able to take a stronger mix. I'm just building a blueberry bed and wondered if anyone had used the juice to maintain an ericaceous bed (who better to ask than someone growing on chalk )

[veggiechicken]

Hello again Malcolm. Thanks for coming over to Introduce yourself
Maybe you should turn to No-dig gardening with your Frozen shoulder. Your soil will thank you for it!

[vixylix]

Welcome Malcolm. You definitely are into Bokashi, I think you've managed to find every thread!

[veggiechicken]

Biochar is GYOMalcolm's topic of the day, Vix! You probably don't remember when Carbon Gold were posting aka advertising here. I think most of us lost interest in it then

[Lumpy]

Hello Malcolm and welcome to the Vine. Maybe a lot less Bokashi and a bit more random growing methods as I would like to know more about your growing etc.