No Fertilizer, No Composting, Carefree Mother Nature Gardening 

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No Fertilizer, No Composting #gardening101 #organic #permaculture   This was grown with no fertilizer. Just mother nature doing her thing. And it's not hydroponics. Just an experiment we're doing. I didn't even plant these tomatoes. They're just volunteer plants. And even in the 90 degree heat, temperatures near 100, and out in the sun, it's about 120, these guys were still setting fruit.
And with barely any watering.
Now some people might call this cold composting, but there's a couple of big differences.
I call this Mother Nature's Graveyard. It took us a couple of years, but this year, when we got ready to plant, we just put a couple of herbs and a few chard. Everything else is just volunteer plants. Now the first year we did this, some squash sprouted up,
so we just let it go. It grew around the shade house, and And we got a lot of butternut squash off of it. It was awesome and free. So pretty much this is a hundred gallon rubbermaid tote. We initially filled it halfway with just topsoil. Cheap stuff, nothing in it. And over the years we've been tossing our vegetable scraps in here.
Also when you see us harvest all the microgreens and we don't eat the roots and some people are saying that's a waste. This is where the waste is going. Then we don't mix it. We don't add a certain amount of brown and green. We don't check the temperature. We just let it be. Everything decomposes in layers.
The worms and microbes do their business. And I pretty much don't do anything to this. Except harvest my greens and herbs.
See man's been farming a long time. And way back before fertilizers and pesticides and all that, you had to look to nature, see how she was doing it.
I think we've all lost sight of that. We just want to add some supplements, fertilizer, and call it organic gardening. I think organic's getting back to the way Mother Nature was doing it. So over the season we just let this continue to grow. Boom. Came in, harvested, herbs, our seashell, whenever we wanted.
And here's the only irrigation. Quarter inch tubing, goes off 15 minutes, twice a day. Now here's where we're different from composting too.