My extremely difficult mix
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AG's difficult soil
- Thread starter Americangrower
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My bumper crop bag is 3cu ft
1 bag each of bumper and lobster
1 cu ft perlite
plastic beer cup each of
holytone
stonington
worm casting
Dom lime
done KISS
I used to use Bar Harbor soil but then read whats in Coast of Maine Bumper crop.. at 1/2 the price
A blend of lobster shells, manure compost, worm castings, kelp, peat and aged bark. Inoculated with endo and ecto mycorrhizal fungi to improve root function. Everything your plants need in one bag!
A blend of lobster shells, manure compost, worm castings, kelp, peat and aged bark. Inoculated with endo and ecto mycorrhizal fungi to improve root function. Everything your plants need in one bag!
Great product.....and available here locally. Will be using this in the veggie garden as well this year.
G
Guest
I can buy the Bumper Crop locally in season. The Coast of Maine compost is harder to come by. I paid for shipping for a bag couple years ago. Its still in my soil Im using but its time for fresh.
Have you tried just skipping all the mixing and using just the C of M Stonington mix ?
I paid thru the nose for a bag shipped for a trial few months back and it worked very will for me. Im using my own soil at the moment but its going to get replaced by spring. Either using this mix your showing or just paying for the shipping for the Stonington depending on availability. I have spent more $$ on amendments and minerals than I care to think and if I can buy bagged stuff in a simple mix like this Im done with starting with peat, perlite, compost and making my own.
Have you tried just skipping all the mixing and using just the C of M Stonington mix ?
I paid thru the nose for a bag shipped for a trial few months back and it worked very will for me. Im using my own soil at the moment but its going to get replaced by spring. Either using this mix your showing or just paying for the shipping for the Stonington depending on availability. I have spent more $$ on amendments and minerals than I care to think and if I can buy bagged stuff in a simple mix like this Im done with starting with peat, perlite, compost and making my own.
I don't know where you are but on COM website they have listings of farms and stores.
I was going to the Agway in Ri they didn't carry the bumper crop, but now have a local farm/nursery that sells it.
Never used the Stonington premix only Bar Harbor. But the soil quality is 10x that of Fox Farms.
T
Teddybrae
Ha Ha! Fat Lazy Rich Americans!
Well I just figured out how much each 5 Cu Ft mix cost me
$31
$31
Envy is motherfucker isn’t it my poor emaciated friend.... but being rich fat and lazy is comfy AF...
well I may be a lil fat but not rich or lazy. Just allergic to the gym, I get all red and sweaty
G
Guest
I’m in the Midwest. Only one upscale type garden center carries bumper crop but the place is set to expand the C of M product lineup this spring. Not far from place I visit on a almost weekly basis. Next closest place is another 50 plus miles. I checked their list a couple years back and every spring I check again. This could be the end of me mixing soil. I have no complaints if I have to spend $20-25a bag for Stonington. I only need them two at a time. My last Elmer’s Glue seemed to do well in it.
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Sweetdog760
Member
Maybe I missed it but whats so difficult about this soil? Other than the exact quantities of amendments being a mystery it seems to me like a decent mix.
G
Guest
Sorry for the drift about Stonington. This mix does look super easy and uses C of M ingredients. This is my plan B for next grow which will be close to spring when garden centers start getting soils in.
LOL.. I guess you didn't get my fatuous pun. It's a simple mix unlike the others on here that call for dozen's on additives.
Sweetdog - He did include exact amendment amounts. The volume measure he used was 1 solo cup. Perhaps you missed that post.
Where I live they don't sell any of these options. I'd have to drive 1.5 hours to even get fox farm of any kind, let alone the others. My best option is to make my own. That aside, my mix is certainly more difficult than this, in terms of sourcing amendments. I think the biggest advantage is knowing exactly what is in my soil in order to know exactly how to modify it.
AG - You don't recycle this mix do you? One and done?
dank.Frank
Where I live they don't sell any of these options. I'd have to drive 1.5 hours to even get fox farm of any kind, let alone the others. My best option is to make my own. That aside, my mix is certainly more difficult than this, in terms of sourcing amendments. I think the biggest advantage is knowing exactly what is in my soil in order to know exactly how to modify it.
AG - You don't recycle this mix do you? One and done?
dank.Frank
Most of the time it's 1 and done, but I have shook rootballs and reused when I didn't have enough soil on hand. Never just reused by itself just mixed with new soil mix.
G
Guest
Is there a specific reason you chose Holly Tone over Tomato Tone ?? Mg content?
