Canadian87
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For some reason I have no PM function on rollitup.org... hoping to get some insight from the original poster of this TLO recipe (CleverPiggy):
1 3.8 cf bag of Pro Mix BX or HP
1 cf of compost (earth worm castings, thermo compost)
.5 cf of perlite, coco shells, pumice or rice hulls
6 cups of Espoma brand bio tone starter plus
3 cups alfalfa meal
3 cups kelp meal
3 cups crab meal (Neptune harvest)
2 cups of a 50/50 mix of Neem cake and Karanja cake (neemsource.com) This stuff is amazing but expensive.
Minerals as follows 1 cups of soft rock phosphate (or brown rock), 1 cup of crushed oyster shells, 1 cup gypsum 3/4 cup of sul po mag, 1 cup of azomite
Mix it thoroughly on a large tarp or cement mixer.”
Question: Is the recipe above for a super soil that can only be placed in the bottom 1/3-1/2 of each container? Or is it a mix that can be transplanted directly into? I mixed a double batch and have had it cooking a few weeks. The reason I chose this mix is because I’d like to avoid animal products that can attract scavengers (there are tons of bears in my area). I removed the crab meal and epsoma biotone starter (has bone/blood meals) and increased amount of alfalfa and kelp. Will also be supplementing insect frass for chitin. CleverPiggy, can you please clarify?
thanks!
1 3.8 cf bag of Pro Mix BX or HP
1 cf of compost (earth worm castings, thermo compost)
.5 cf of perlite, coco shells, pumice or rice hulls
6 cups of Espoma brand bio tone starter plus
3 cups alfalfa meal
3 cups kelp meal
3 cups crab meal (Neptune harvest)
2 cups of a 50/50 mix of Neem cake and Karanja cake (neemsource.com) This stuff is amazing but expensive.
Minerals as follows 1 cups of soft rock phosphate (or brown rock), 1 cup of crushed oyster shells, 1 cup gypsum 3/4 cup of sul po mag, 1 cup of azomite
Mix it thoroughly on a large tarp or cement mixer.”
Question: Is the recipe above for a super soil that can only be placed in the bottom 1/3-1/2 of each container? Or is it a mix that can be transplanted directly into? I mixed a double batch and have had it cooking a few weeks. The reason I chose this mix is because I’d like to avoid animal products that can attract scavengers (there are tons of bears in my area). I removed the crab meal and epsoma biotone starter (has bone/blood meals) and increased amount of alfalfa and kelp. Will also be supplementing insect frass for chitin. CleverPiggy, can you please clarify?
thanks!