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Soil Mix for 2" Soil Blocks or Transplants

Ingredients

  • 3 buckets (10 quart bucket) brown peat
  • 1/2 cup lime
  • 2 buckets coarse sand
  • 1 cup blood meal
  • 1 cup colloidal phosphate (22%)
  • 1 cup greensand
  • 1 bucket soil
  • 2 buckets compost

Notes

To make the seed starting mix, measure the peat into a large mixing container, add the lime and mix. Then add the sand, blood meal, phosphate, and greensand – mix again. Add the soil and compost, mix again. It’s a good idea to start out with good quality peat that doesn’t have large pieces in it, otherwise the mix needs to be screened (I found this out the hard way). The recipe makes about 2 bushels of mix and can be used for “soil blocks” or starting seedlings in containers.