My first soil recipe!

[whichcat]

Just looking for some feedback, this is my first soil recipe based off of Coot's Soil Mix.

Base 1-1-1
36 cups Sphangum Peat Moss
12.5 cups Vermiculite and 21.5 cups Perlite
32 cups Compost (Leafgro) and 4 cups worm castings
(this equals to about less than 1 cubic foot)

Rock dust/trace minerals
3 cups Azomite

Amendments
1 cup Kelp Meal
1.5 cups Neem Seed Meal
1 cup Oyster Shell Flour
1/2 cup Garden Gypsum
1 cup Bone Meal

2 tbsp Mycorrhizal Fungus

Planning on letting it sit for a month, keeping the mixture covered and moist with water ph-ed 6.5 - 7. I used a lot of Espoma products because that's what's available at my gardening stores. I also don't have enough matured compost, so I bought some from Home Depot. My hope for my next run is to have my own aged compost to use, and to use equal parts compost and worm castings (but worm castings are expensive!).

 

[Wizzlebiz]

Of course worm casting are expensive.....

That tiny little pooper scooper is hard to use!

 

[Kalebaiden]

I think this recipe is light on the Calcium. That might be something to consider. 5.5 cups of Calcium giving ingredients might seem like alot but you are pouring that into 100+ cups of not Calcium.

Make sure you mix this insanely well.

 

[SirTimmyTrap]

Just looking for some feedback, this is my first soil recipe based off of Coot's Soil Mix.

Base 1-1-1
36 cups Sphangum Peat Moss
12.5 cups Vermiculite and 21.5 cups Perlite
32 cups Compost (Leafgro) and 4 cups worm castings
(this equals to about less than 1 cubic foot)

Rock dust/trace minerals
3 cups Azomite

Amendments
1 cup Kelp Meal
1.5 cups Neem Seed Meal
1 cup Oyster Shell Flour
1/2 cup Garden Gypsum
1 cup Bone Meal

2 tbsp Mycorrhizal Fungus

Planning on letting it sit for a month, keeping the mixture covered and moist with water ph-ed 6.5 - 7. I used a lot of Espoma products because that's what's available at my gardening stores. I also don't have enough matured compost, so I bought some from Home Depot. My hope for my next run is to have my own aged compost to use, and to use equal parts compost and worm castings (but worm castings are expensive!).

How were your results using Leafgro compost? Basically planning on doing the same recipe with a few tweaks.

 

[Richard Drysift]

Sounds like a good organic mix. EWC is expensive and store bought compost is from worms usually fed mostly shredded paper. The absolute best EWC comes straight outta da worm bin; starting a worm bin at home is a baller move. I love my worm factory 360; I literally feed my weed plants kitchen scraps.