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We are in total agreement on that score! Been my experience as well. Bought 2 bags about 5 years ago. After using part of the first bag, the second bag is still unopened. The rest of the first bag got tossed. It really is sub par. Wet

Sorta, kinda. I've never used greensand as a sole K source, it's just too damned slow. However it does compliment and work beautifully with kelp meal and I've always used both together, getting both the relative fast and slow release. If there is only one though, kelp meal is that one. It is a...

You add lime for the total amount of mix, not just the peat. *I* prefer dolomite lime since it covers both cal/mag and pH buffering. Oyster shell flour isn't bad, just extremely expensive to ship. I've also seen people who mistakenly get chicken scratch oyster shell which is totally useless in a...

And soon to be coupled with high $$$ items because it sounds so cool. Nevermind that you could DIY same items for pennys.:wall: Wet

A bit more south I spect. I'm in the up-country region of S.C., the piedmont region just east of the Smokey mtns. About 900' elevation. The Low country is like Charleston SC and pretty much sea level. Nice, but way different than SoFl where I spent my first 58 years. Michigan? No thanks, it's...

Did some google and found out I'm just too far south for low bush BB. There IS a southern variety, known down here as a Huckleberry. Huh! Learn something new every day. Still, have never seen or tasted one. I'll ask my neighbor, who's a native and collects wild blackberries every year. He...

I also have the fresh leaves available, same as you describe, but closer to $2 a leaf. Still cheap considering my location. Mo betta than the dried stuff IMO and plenty cheap. Mainly just use it for cloning now, but years ago did juice it in the blender, although I skinned it first. @$1/leaf...

IDK either with the mj and likely won't find out this year. Just going to do a few buckets with annual stuff and then see what the mix looks like next fall. Totally learned my lesson 6 years or so ago, about going whole hog with untested (by me), opinions, with Coot's recc of 4-6 cups/cf of...

Only Mother plants and some clones are indoors, everything else is outside in full sun. Wet

Saw this little blurb, almost just an aside, from a food blogger, that mentioned she did a bottom layer of pine cones in her container plants. Aided drainage, reduced weight, the plants loved it, blah, blah, blah. Said she filled about the bottom 25% or so of the container. Have never heard of...

I fell into the same trap early on with the mj specific recipes in regards to pine bark. The mix I learned in 1972 (no internet, or even anything written down), was peat moss, perlite, pine bark fines, a shovelful of sheep manure and the same of Oolitic limestone screenings (ancient coral...

I too fell into the myth of mj being some sort of special unicorn to grow organically, even after 30+ years of growing exotics that really were unicorns. Had a import license and the whole 9 yards. Anyway, the first couple of years were "mj specific" recipes, teas and about 13 different dry...

Yeah buddy! Totally with you on the 10-15% compost bit, PLUS, fewer amendments and smaller amounts of amendments. This is from experience and observation over the last 7 or so years when I went to organic inputs. Have ~45 years experience making the basic mix (peat, perlite, pine bark fines...

Yeah, the greensand really seems to compliment the kelp meal, a real slow release of K. Because it's so slow, what I'm doing as an experiment is adding some to the worm bin bedding. Not so much for the worms benefit as to let the 'crobes in there start it breaking down. In my mixes, I really...

REALLY!! Many years in landscaping/maintenance have left me very sensitive to both stings and sap. You would think resistance would grow, but just the opposite. The comfrey fills my needs quite nicely thankyouverymuch. Wet

Why not just get a small bag of seed starting mix and some solo cups with drainage holes? By the time they are ready to xplant, the soil will be done -> 3 or 4 sets of leaves. Wet

I now have 3 'stock' or 'nursery' totes (18 gal), that perhaps get harvested every 6 months or so and 4 more working (?) totes that are done on a seasonal basis (10 gal, same dimensions as the 18's, but not as tall). I'll bait or 'trap' 500 -> 1,000 worms from the stock bins to get these going...

That's a good technique to follow. But, just how often are you feeding them? Even in the summer when the bins are really cranking, it's seldom more often than every couple of weeks and in the winter it's more like a month to 6 weeks. Max temps are 76* and 52* min in the basement. It also...

Pretty much with anything, if you can't see the bedding you've added too much with the topdress. Wet