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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg AT igg.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Coleman's Soil Mix
  • Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 05:29:37 -0400

Title: Coleman's Soil Mix
Recipe below.

My questions (if you use Coleman's mix)

1. What is your source for "peat humus' (and do you have an economical source for coir?)
2. Why greensand for potassium when I have read that greensand may not be 'available' to the plants for 2 years?
3. Is steamed bone meal a reasonable substitute for colloidal phospate?

Thanks

-Allan

recipe from ATTRA:

Organic potting mix
1 part sphagnum peat or coir
1 part peat humus (short fiber)
1 part compost
1 part sharp sand (builder's)

to every 80 qts. of this add:

1 cup greensand
1 cup colloidal phosphate
1 1/2 to 2 cups crabmeal, or bloodmeal
1/2 cup lime




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