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Maritimer
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Garden Update,
So, in case I forget, this is how the earth boxes came together for me. The trays each came with two bags of peat, a bag of 7-7-7 base chow, and a bag of soil additives that arouse my dog's interests, and lastly a bag of dolomite. The good folks at earth box went to all the trouble of giving me instructions how to mix the medium. That was nice, but who reads the directions. If I wanted directions I would ask my wife, she knows everything ya know.
I took out the kiddie pools and fashioned myself as a learned soilist. I mixed all the shit together and added a bunch of perlite. Then I made a good slushy out of it to give the dolomite a kick in the rear and get about to buffering. Loaded up the trays with only a modest lump of the medium. Installed the covers that came with the trays as moisture barriers, more to keep my pups out of the smelly stuff.
I planted two directly in the trays and the other two were started in Jiffy cups. The jiffy kids seem to be doing better. After the first week I added 1 gallon of MC @ 4 grams/gal. Also mixed in 5 grams cal/mag and 4 grams silica with the MC. The hot start (fertilized medium) has not been issue to date.
I will grab pictures in a few.
next run with earth boxes will be Pro-Mix HP
some of it got mixed in this time because the kiddie pool was already half full.
So, in case I forget, this is how the earth boxes came together for me. The trays each came with two bags of peat, a bag of 7-7-7 base chow, and a bag of soil additives that arouse my dog's interests, and lastly a bag of dolomite. The good folks at earth box went to all the trouble of giving me instructions how to mix the medium. That was nice, but who reads the directions. If I wanted directions I would ask my wife, she knows everything ya know.
I took out the kiddie pools and fashioned myself as a learned soilist. I mixed all the shit together and added a bunch of perlite. Then I made a good slushy out of it to give the dolomite a kick in the rear and get about to buffering. Loaded up the trays with only a modest lump of the medium. Installed the covers that came with the trays as moisture barriers, more to keep my pups out of the smelly stuff.
I planted two directly in the trays and the other two were started in Jiffy cups. The jiffy kids seem to be doing better. After the first week I added 1 gallon of MC @ 4 grams/gal. Also mixed in 5 grams cal/mag and 4 grams silica with the MC. The hot start (fertilized medium) has not been issue to date.
I will grab pictures in a few.
next run with earth boxes will be Pro-Mix HP
some of it got mixed in this time because the kiddie pool was already half full.
