Hi Y’all, wannabe permie here with a small garden bed that is currently exploding with cherry tomatoes that we would love to eat but I’m a bit hesitant. I setup this bed in March of last year – I dug down about 24″ into the native soil and did this kinda hugulkultur style – I layed down some palm logs and other big branches. I then added a couple inch layer of wood chip, and then a couple inches of fresh quail manure from a guy nearby. I covered that with a few more inches of wood chip, then another layer of quail shit, then another layer of woodchip. I then added some mycorrhizae, rock dusts, humic acid, bone meal, and whatever random amendments I could find in my shed. I then added about a 8″ layer of a quality garden soil mix from a local farm. I’ve sprayed the entire bed a couple times with homemade lacto bacillus serum. I planted this cherry tomato in the garden back in October – I’m in AZ – and thanks to a super mild winter it did well and now has exploded – it has literally taken over the entire 16’x3′ bed so its loving life, and I think all that N from the quail manure is a big part of this. My question – is there concern about possible pathogens from the quail manure since it was fresh when I added it last year? I’m leaning towards no with the bed hopefully ‘teeming with microbes’ that have outcompeted any bad guys, but what do you all think?
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