Basic Soil Mix Recipe
- 3 numbers mean how much N-P-K is in the feed
Start with:
2 gallons of good organic soil mix, fox farm is a good choice in most cases
2 gallons of Perlite
2 gallons of worm castings (local garden shops will have some or know of a place)
Additives
1-2 cups of perfered( and costly) feed. You want roughly a 5-5-5 feed. Bags will have these 3 numbers on them.
1/2-1 cup of sand ( green sand perfered)
1 cup of crushed Oyster Shells
1/4-1/2 of Dolomite Lime
1/4-1/2 cup of Blood Meal
1/2-1 cup of bulb food (3-8-8)
1/2 cup of powered Gypsum
2-4 cups of Manure
Additives For Vegetation
1/2 cup Blood Meal (12-8-2/ N-P-K)
1/2 bone meal
1/2 cup kelp meal
1/2 cup bird guano
1/2 feather meal
Additives for Flowering
1/4 cup feather meal
1/4 cup bulb food (3-8-8)
1/4 cup bone meal
1/2 cup kelp
Very Basic Soil Mix
70% Fox Farm Ocean Forest and then10% Perlite10% Vermiculite10% spagnuhm peat moss
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