I'm making some Lc #1 and I have blood, bone and kelp, but I wanted some tips\suggestions on how to incorporate some new things into it. I'm mainly just poor at math so the amounts to add get confusing with more ingredients, but I really want to spruce it up a tid bit. The amount of soil i'm making;
5 cu ft. Canada Sphagnum Peat
3 cu. ft. perlite
2 cu. ft. ewc\compost
Total=10 cu.ft., so roughly 70 gal.
LC #1
5 cups blood
10 cups bone
5 cups kelp.
I want to incorporate neem seed, alfalfa, and cottonseed meals. soft rock phosphate, glacial rock dust, azomite, and maybe get some sul po mag...no guanos or 'feeding' teas, just top-dressing EWC, and watering with ACT, or seaweed\fish hydrosylate....if needed in veg. Also I was wondering if I should just drop the cottonseed meal since I heard it can come from farms that use pesticides? It's just really cheap..
I was thinking of cutting back on the blood (since it's gross) with seed meals..I can get flax seeds which i can blend up to a meal plus the above mentioned ones. Ditto on the soft rock phosphate instead of bones.
I guess in a nutshell what amounts of each of these elements should I add to each Cu. Ft. of my 10 cu. ft. of Lc #1
Thanks
I'd use fish meal instead of blood..and fish bone meal instead of mammal bone.....you could also do a fish bone meal/rock phos blend. Check the common usage rates of each amendment and apply that to what you are doing..there are conversion calculators on the web. Not too much alfalfa if you are using other nitrogen sources,but a little is good...somewhere CC mentions the start out proportions of the seed meals..not sure where. I'd ditch the cottonseed meal if if wasn't organic.