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*I* use dolomite lime. Cal+Mag and no NPK. Just need to apply once per grow or 3. Wet

Blood, Bone, Kelp, my very first mix and worked well. The bone and kelp have been constant for 10 years, but the N source gets varied, like, alfalfa, soy, neem/karanja, seabird guano. But only one gets used. Wet

I never try to screen out the perlite, nor cocoons or baby worms. Just the adults that I can "trap" using melon rinds and even then I miss some. More worms and aeration is always welcome in the garden or containers. Plus, with 6 active bins going and long harvest times, there is never a...

Could I give you a simple bedding mix that contains everything you use in your soil mix? This makes just under 2cf which I keep in a 15 gal trash can (with drainage), and dip into as needed. This has worked well for 10 years now. I use 5gal buckets to measure. ~5-7 gallons of expanded peat...

What about the pH of your SOIL? I mean, you lime your soil to get it right, but the Ca does get consumed over time and needs to be reapplied. It's not a once in a lifetime event, but does need to be reapplied every year or 2, especially with plants that consume a lot of Ca. Orgainic soils...

Done with volume, not weight. A cup of neem cake and a cup of rock dust are vastly different in weight. DB is spot on, a 240ml will work just fine. We aren't baking, just using consistant amounts for measurements. Plus, you may find that slightly more or slightly less of whatever works best...

AFA keeping it aerobic, #1 is to make sure there are drainage holes in the top bin (the one with the worms), bricks or similar between the 2 bins so that the top bin is not sitting in the drainage water and some sort of aeration in the bedding itself. Wet

You're mixing Magnesium (Mg), and Manganese (Mn), up. Stang was talking about Mn levels, not Mag. Wet

It can get confusing, it's all pretty much the same, just both liquid and dry versions of the same Efficient Microbes like EM1. The EM1 is a concentrate and should be 'expanded'/activated (AEM). Even a small bottle will expand to several gallons of AEM. Just use this when a liquid is more...

Lets do a quick math problem. *I* run close to 40% aeration in my no tills, mostly perlite with some pine bark mulch and some biochar. For a 75 gal container that works out to very close to 4cf of aeration. You can get 4cf of perlite for $25. The same amount of pumice is going to cost $100...

I think for the information you're looking for would be to find a copy of "Seaweed and plant growth" by T. L. Senn Ph. D. Head professor Emeritus, Dept of Horticulture, Clemson University. He studied Kelp (Ascophyllum Nodosum), for over 30 years at Clemson and the book is a very comprehensive...

This is really something to consider and works well for me. Found out by accident back in SoFl when I had a small rare plant nursery. My ferns kept getting blown over daily from the regular squalls we got in the summer. I buried the pots about 1/2 to 2/3 deep in the sugar sand that passes for...

I'm also in red clay country (SC), and the same muddy when wet, cracked when dry situation. Two things I do that help are: Sprinkling gypsum over the surface 2-3 times a season (sold as "Soil repair", $10-$12/40lb bag, HD or Lowes), and liberal use of pine BARK (not wood chips), mulch over the...

You're stressing over something that is really NBD. The constant turning will kill a bunch of weed seeds that sprouted or started to sprout in the pile from exposing the new roots to the sun or air. Plus, how hard is it to pull a 1-2" weed if it does sprout? My worm bins are inside, but most...

Supply and demand and limited harvests. The Thorvin I use is harvested around Iceland and they have plots or areas that they can harvest from, it's very regulated there. Alagamin comes from around Nova Scotia and seems to be mostly hand harvested. Not sure of the regulations. Both cases it's...

Well worth the Google search and it's easy to check the prices and the shipping. The price is as listed and they will take the product you picked and, with your zip code tell you exactly what the shipping will be and the total. I've never really seen any advertising from them, it all seems...

LOL Do you get a kiss with that, or, just the dry fuck? That same 40lb bag from Planet Natural is $34.xx and the shipping is ~$15, under $50 to my door. I try and source locally, but the stuff I can't find and must ship, I've found PlanetNatural to be the highest quality and cheapest cost...

I've always used Myco Grow soluble from Fungi Perfecti, and have for at least the last 15 years. Been around for years and Paul Staments is a world famous mycologist and author.. Wet

ShLUbY The malted barley is a good thing, but can easily be over done. Some when making the mix and a couple times over the course of the grow is plenty. Them enzymes be strong, so keep an eye on things. Hmmm ... Did a little math on those Gro Pros. The 5gal is actually 7.4 gallons to the...

It's the "No till revisited" thread up in the stickies. No one does spikes or layering as it's simply not needed. The Rev just doesn't figure a lot with this style of mix/growing. I also use a variation on Coots mix much like ShLUbY's but with some different materials. The guiding principals...