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Yeah, if you got rootbound in a 100g pot from seed, you just may want to start a little later. LOL My usual reamends are bone meal anf kelp meal at 1/2 to 3/4 strength for the P and K. For N it's 1/2 cup neem meal PLUS 1/2 cup of alfalfa (if it's going to cook for a bit), or some other N...

Over 90% of what I grow is outside. I swear, growing outdoors is like cooking with a crock pot. Add everything, water, then let nature do the rest. I even prefer to pop seeds outside once it's warm enough. Just seems to give plants a better start in life, a few hours of direct, early AM sun...

Reamending and top dressing are pretty much the flip sides of the same coin. I'll reamend mix in my 'dump tote', where smaller containers get dumped. Larger containers and notills get top dressed and only reamended after ~3 years when the mix starts getting tired. I reamend at ~3/4 strength of...

Yeah, expand the EM-1 first. Even the small bottle of concentrate makes over 10 gallons of expanded EM-1. I've only used the concentrate for making bokashi bran and even then it gets expanded. There are more than a few youtube vids to do both. Just type in bokashi or EM-1 in the search. IIRC...

I've pretty much discontinued using other rock dusts in favor of just greensand. The greensand is almost as dense as the granite meal sourced locally and it's real easy to get the mix too dense with both. I have been adding some to the worm bins for ~a year now. This was mainly to get it...

Different stuff completely. It's only called "green" sand because water is added, nothing to do with color or makeup. Wet

They like wood just fine. It's the copper sulfate (IIRC), in the pressure treat that's toxic.

WHAT?! I was looking for other greensand stuff and Google showed where they were building walls of the stuff in the UK. There were like 3 major deposits in the country. Perhaps I was mistaken, but that green wall was kinda pretty. Cheers Wet

I'm running 6 bins ATM, 3 - 18gal totes and 3 - 10gal totes, but these did not happen overnight and I started with just one bin. To be realistic, it will take about a year to build up your population to where multiple bins are no problem. For example: Fresh new bin from scratch, mail order...

Not addressed to me, but yes, greensand works well in this case along with being added to mixes. Wet

I've always added greensand when making fresh mixes, but it really shines in no till or other long term soils. I consider it my 'fast release' rock dust, fast being relative. LOL Anyone else using it long term? Cheers Wet

No idea. I'm sure there is specialized equipment for larger amounts, but like for a ton or less/year finding a scaled down crusher/grinder is ????? Wet

No real need for testing as all shells for crustaceans are mainly just thin alternating layers of chitin and calcium carbonate. The tricky part is the equipment to crunch it small enough to become available sometime in your lifetime. The CaCO3 is really resistant to breaking down and the...

Yes, you would need to add lime. Basalt pretty much has zero buffering ability and crab, not so much due to mesh size, it's too coarse to be effective. I always treat and add my liming agent totally seperate from any other minerals, rock dusts, or amendments. It saves a LOT of confusion in the...

Make up a "fix it" mix of equal amounts of kelp meal, neem meal, and crustacean/crab meal and use that as a base. Other stuff like barley or alfalfa gets added individually. as needed. Wet

I'm doing that very thing. PM sent Wet

I've used the straw from Lowes for years on my raised bed gardens with no problems. For outdoor containers/no tills I use pine bark mulch or perlite and sometimes a blend of the two. Like RR, I use no mulch at all indoors. Seems to creat more problems than it solves. Try different stuff and...

I'm also of the "run it through the worm bin" crowd. Wet

I start at 40% (perlite), and over time it usually ends up closer to 50% from other added aeration amendments. The mix does get denser as time goes on. Many, MANY problems with organic grows can be ultimately be traced back to poor aeration/drainage even though it's not obvious at first. You...

Really creative ad copy writers. LOL Think WH press spokesman, not quite pure bullshit, but close.