So I wanted to post this question here, to try to get information on it;
How long does it take for the soil to replenish the carbon lost in it?
To give you an idea, I've been gardening for years. Probably this will be my 9th or 10th year gardening. I wasn't very good at it at the start. But then I realized about halfway through that experience that part of why I wasn't doing very good was that the carbon was stripped from the soil in our backyard. We didn't have a lot of land. I found out you could you know, put aged steer manure and other things to fix it. But that by itself can be a battle if you are with other family members that don't understand and try to interfere.
Anyway... people have the idea of crop rotation... but... can the carbon really replenish itself without actually putting down aged steer manure or other things? Will it heal just naturally? (I don't see how that would work... although I guess there are small bugs and microbes in the soil...?) And also it would seem like there would be 2 different rates of change for how long the soil would take to heal itself of stripped resources; 1 rate should be the rate to heal without help from you yourself the farmer or gardener. And the 2nd rate would be with steer manure or whatever... ?
Anyway this has me so curious to ask. I mean... I think I should have asked this a long time ago. I kind of have an idea that... I can get it to work if I plant stuff with steer manure around it that's properly aged and has the bacteria burned out. So I've got some things to work. But it always seems like there's just 1 more thing to learn you know? There's always new things to research. And part of that is exciting that you can wake up and find something to research and learn and that it can be fun too.
I think a lot of people need the ideas around this concept of how to replenish the soil. Especially yards in the city are more likely to have lost nutrients for plants since people in the city don't know a lot about that kind of stuff and have small yards. But also the food systems and the problems in this country and in other developed countries are so amazingly huge that people really have no clue what's going on. And I hope more people decide to get into gardening, for their own sake.
How long does it take for the soil to replenish the carbon lost in it?
To give you an idea, I've been gardening for years. Probably this will be my 9th or 10th year gardening. I wasn't very good at it at the start. But then I realized about halfway through that experience that part of why I wasn't doing very good was that the carbon was stripped from the soil in our backyard. We didn't have a lot of land. I found out you could you know, put aged steer manure and other things to fix it. But that by itself can be a battle if you are with other family members that don't understand and try to interfere.
Anyway... people have the idea of crop rotation... but... can the carbon really replenish itself without actually putting down aged steer manure or other things? Will it heal just naturally? (I don't see how that would work... although I guess there are small bugs and microbes in the soil...?) And also it would seem like there would be 2 different rates of change for how long the soil would take to heal itself of stripped resources; 1 rate should be the rate to heal without help from you yourself the farmer or gardener. And the 2nd rate would be with steer manure or whatever... ?
Anyway this has me so curious to ask. I mean... I think I should have asked this a long time ago. I kind of have an idea that... I can get it to work if I plant stuff with steer manure around it that's properly aged and has the bacteria burned out. So I've got some things to work. But it always seems like there's just 1 more thing to learn you know? There's always new things to research. And part of that is exciting that you can wake up and find something to research and learn and that it can be fun too.
I think a lot of people need the ideas around this concept of how to replenish the soil. Especially yards in the city are more likely to have lost nutrients for plants since people in the city don't know a lot about that kind of stuff and have small yards. But also the food systems and the problems in this country and in other developed countries are so amazingly huge that people really have no clue what's going on. And I hope more people decide to get into gardening, for their own sake.