Last year I had a great year growing, and loved my soil mix. I would change a couple things, for example:
Take out the EWC and add 1-2" at top soil once planted.
Roots organics have been good to me, but they hurt my pocket book. I would love hear how I could make my own base soil, that would be equal to RO for much cheaper.
Bump up the Pumic and/or rice hulls.
The other thing I want to get away from is planting half base soil and half "supersoil". I think that your more fertile soil should be on the top, as that is where the microbial life lives. So instead of 50/50, I would want to mix up all my soil at one strength.
Last years soil recipe as follows:
8 bags of Roots Organics green bag. (12 cubic feet, but really more like 10.5)
1 cubic foot of earth worm castings. Or 50 lbs
5 lbs steamed bone meal
5 lbs bloom bat guano
5 lbs blood meal
3 lbs rock phosphate
3/4 cup Epsom salts
1 cup sweet dolomite (lime)
1/2 cup azomite
2 tbsp powdered humic acid
8 cup alfalfa
8 cup kelp meal
1.5 cubic feet of Pumice.
Take out the EWC and add 1-2" at top soil once planted.
Roots organics have been good to me, but they hurt my pocket book. I would love hear how I could make my own base soil, that would be equal to RO for much cheaper.
Bump up the Pumic and/or rice hulls.
The other thing I want to get away from is planting half base soil and half "supersoil". I think that your more fertile soil should be on the top, as that is where the microbial life lives. So instead of 50/50, I would want to mix up all my soil at one strength.
Last years soil recipe as follows:
8 bags of Roots Organics green bag. (12 cubic feet, but really more like 10.5)
1 cubic foot of earth worm castings. Or 50 lbs
5 lbs steamed bone meal
5 lbs bloom bat guano
5 lbs blood meal
3 lbs rock phosphate
3/4 cup Epsom salts
1 cup sweet dolomite (lime)
1/2 cup azomite
2 tbsp powdered humic acid
8 cup alfalfa
8 cup kelp meal
1.5 cubic feet of Pumice.