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gardengal wrote:
On Mar 26, 6:28*pm, gar_newbie wrote:
Hi Everyone,
First time gardener from Ohio need your help. *TIA.
I am planning for vegetable plants in a wooden boxes of size 4 foot x
4 foot x 8 inches (=~ 11 cubic foot). Four of these boxes makes 45
cubic foot approximately.
I filled these four boxes with the soil less medium as following:
* * * * Coarse Vermiculite * 15 cubic foot
* * * * Sphagnum Peat Moss * 15 cubic foot
* * * * `Compost kind of` * 15 cubic foot (1 cubic foot each of below)
I have searched 50+ of garden centers locally (zip code: 45040) and
couldn't find so called ³COMPOST². *For next year I will be preparing
my own compost so this question won't arise. *But, to begin my first/
fresh vegetable garden; in the place of compost I used the following
mix. *I mixed them *VERY* thorough spending a week.
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Question: is the following mix 'OK' to begin my garden? *Am I sort of
something here? *Am I going to kill the plants with Over dosage? *Any
other suggestions/ideas to help myself is greatly appreciated.
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My `Compost kind of` - 15 cubic foot is:
1.Mother Nature's * SWEET PEET * Composted soil conditioner * 1 cubic
foot
2.Nea's * POSY POWER * Powerful soil booster * 1 cubic foot
3.Premier Horticulture * PRO MIX * Growing mix * 1 cubic foot
4.Nature's Helper * MUSHROOM COMPOST * Organic soil * 1 cubic foot
5.Garden Magic * COMPOST AND MANURE * Peat & Manure * 1 cubic foot
6.Ace * COMPOSTED MANURE * Loosens soil * 1 cubic foot
7.New Plant Life * MUSHROOM COMPOST SOIL * Soil amendment - 1 cubic
foot
8.Garden Scape * PEAT HUMUS * Decomposed Organic Š - 1 cubic foot
9.Garden Scape * COW MANURE * will not burn * 1 cubic foot
10.Organic Valley * HUMUS * ready to use * 1 cubic foot
11.Organic Valley * COW MANURE PLUS ORGANIC COMPOST * Ready to use * 1
cubic foot
12.Organic Valley * ORGANIC COMPOST PLUS MANURE * Compost & manure * 1
cubic foot
13.Garick * MOO NURE * Organic Compost with Cow Manure * 1 cubic foot
14.Country Stone * COMPOSTED COW MANURE * Soil conditioner * 1 cubic
foot
15.Earth Gro * ORGANIC HUMUS AND MANURE * Soil amendment * 1 cubic
foot
Thanks & Regards
Ganesh
In detail (if you are still reading this post ;-) ) *Assuming the
product is what the cover says.
1.Mother Nature's * SWEET PEET * Composted soil conditioner * 1 cubic
foot
Organic material made from wood shavings, farm manure & plant fibers
(USCC)
2.Nea's * POSY POWER * Powerful soil booster * 1 cubic foot
All Organic: Horse manure, sphagnum Peat, Brewer's Grain, Gypsum &
lime
0.7% * *0.45% * 1.0%
3.Premier Horticulture * PRO MIX * Growing mix * 1 cubic foot
Compost Enrich (from shrimp, seaweed, softwood bark), Microrise
inside, Sphagnum Peat Moss, Peat Humus (OMRI)
4.Nature's Helper * MUSHROOM COMPOST * Organic soil * 1 cubic foot
5.Garden Magic * COMPOST AND MANURE * Peat & Manure * 1 cubic foot
Reed sedge Peat, Manure
0.1% * *0.1% * *0.1%
6.Ace * COMPOSTED MANURE * Loosens soil * 1 cubic foot
0.5% * *0.5% * *0.5%
7.New Plant Life * MUSHROOM COMPOST SOIL * Soil amendment - 1 cubic
foot
8.Garden Scape * PEAT HUMUS * Decomposed Organic Š - 1 cubic foot
A decomposed organic forest peat fiber
9.Garden Scape * COW MANURE * will not burn * 1 cubic foot
1% * * *1% * * *1%
10.Organic Valley * HUMUS * ready to use * 1 cubic foot
11.Organic Valley * COW MANURE PLUS ORGANIC COMPOST * Ready to use * 1
cubic foot
0.05% * 0.05% * 0.05% (USCC)
12.Organic Valley * ORGANIC COMPOST PLUS MANURE * Compost & manure * 1
cubic foot
0.05% * 0.05% * 0.05%
13.Garick * MOO NURE * Organic Compost with Cow Manure * 1 cubic foot
0.2% * *0.2% * *0.2% (USCC)
14.Country Stone * COMPOSTED COW MANURE * Soil conditioner * 1 cubic
foot
Cow manure, Peat and Humus
0.05% * 0.05% * 0.05%
15.Earth Gro * ORGANIC HUMUS AND MANURE * Soil amendment * 1 cubic
foot
90% organic humus (peat, compost, forest products) and 10% manure
0.05% * 0.05% * 0.05%
I swore I'd answered this post, but my response hasn't not
materialized :-) Perhaps I addressed it to the author rather than to
the forum and it went directly to him via email......I have that
problem now and again!
gar_newbie, if you did not receive my response, let me know and I'll
repost. As I stated in it, I think you may have some problems with
your 'mix' going forward.
Your final mix should be about 20% clay 20% -30% sand. You may want to
pulverize (as best you can) a bag of charcoal (not briquettes) and throw
it in as well.
--
- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is
now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of
conception until death." - Rachel Carson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html