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  • From: David King <greenman AT ucla.edu>
  • To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Seed Starting
  • Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2000 09:52:50 -0800


Ah... my first post to this list...

I used to make my own seed starting mix using perlite and peat moss. One
year I taught a
seed starting seminar and I decided it would be fun to show the class that
you didn't
need to spend money on a commercial mix that would be a waste of your
resources. I
started lettuce from seeds - hundreds of 'em - in flats of my homemade mix,
a homemade
mix using the (then) new coir fibers, a commercial potting mix and Whitney
Farms seed
starting mix. I also started my tomatoes in the same fashion, but not enough
plants to
be "scientific".

The results were startling enough to make your eyes bug out, to use a term
that keeps
this truly a scientific report. The Whitney Farms Seed starting mix out
preformed after
every fashion, by all criteria. I now use it exclusively, expense be damned.
Germination was better, root growth and shoot growth was more robust. I was
soundly
defeated in my premise. I don't have the statistics at hand anymore (this
was 5 years
ago), but it was fairly astonishing.

David King,
who encourages all to undertake their own study as
Your Mileage May Vary





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