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  • From: "Andeanfx" <andeanfx@midrivers.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] seed starting medium?
  • Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:12:17 -0700

Paul, approximately what proportion do you use?


Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken. - Oscar Wilde


----- Original Message ----- From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 6:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] seed starting medium?



Interesting. Speaking only for myself, I see no point in sterile potting mixes. I've never seen any evidence it avoids disease or other problems. And I don't spend money on heating pads and lights. I tell myself KISS - keep it simple stupid ...

I just use some commercial coir-based mix, with small amounts of the things that go in the beds, soil, alfalfa meal, screened manure, bonemeal, greensand, maybe some vermicompost. Hardly sterile! And I germinate in 4" pots in flats indoors, then move to get some light soon as stuff sprouts. Never had a problem with disease or damping off.

I can relate to the vehicle thing ........

paul tradingpost@lobo.net


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On 1/29/2010 at 9:34 AM Debbie Mcdonald wrote:

I've always directly sowed my seeds and have not alot of experience with
vegetable gardening. In starting our own seeds, must we use potting soil
and if the world gets uglier;), then what would we do, sterilize the dirt
somehow?? Nature does not do these things:). Do all of you have rooms with
lights and heat pads and all that. I'm going to make next week time to
start looking for abandoned greenhouses too:) Well, I have to get a new
used vehicle first, don't want to put new tires on this one.
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