I came back from my summer internship to this beautiful humus so I decided to start my fall planting. I decided to plant spinach, zucchini, and carrots. Since I'm a researcher in my day job - I decided to test my compost.
I planted two pots of the zucchini and carrots. For each I made a base mix of old potting soil and fresh potting soil. Then I put down either a layer of compost or a layer of fresh potting soil. I planted one pot of spinach and I used the compost for that. I also counter-balanced position, so that there is one compost and one no-compost plant on each side of the porch (with the spinach in the middle).
Carrots (Red pot: w/compost)
And the zuchini
Top picture: w/ compost
And the Spinach
I started gardening about a year ago and I haven't had much luck growing from seed - so we'll see how this goes! The seeds were all planted on Aug. 22nd.
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