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Joe Grow's Super Soil

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Joe Grow’s Super Soil Mix

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10 Gallon Small Batch (adjust ratios to fit your size batch)


Base Soil Mix

4 Gallons of Compost from a local composting company or 4 gallons of Organic garden soil.

2 Gallons of Quality Worm Castings

2 Gallons of Coconut Coir or Pitmoss (not peat moss)

2 Gallons of Aeration (pumic, rice hulls, lava rock)

To this add each of the following:

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Nitrogen

  • Feather Meal (slow)                ¾ cup

  • Blood Meal (fast)                    ¾ cup

  • Bat Guano Nitrogen (fast)      ½ cup

 

Phosphorus

  • Bone Meal (Slow)                    ¾ cup

  • Fish bone meal (fast)              ½ cup

  • Bat Guano Phosphorus            ¾ cup

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Micronutrients (Choose at least 4)

  • Kelp Meal                               ½ cup

  • Neem meal                             ½ cup

  • Steer Manure                          4 cups

  • Organic Rice                           1 cup

  • Organic Oats                           1 cup

  • Alfalfa Meal                             1 cup

  • Insect Frass                            ½ cup

  • Bokashi                                    1 cup

  • Crab Shell Meal                       ½ cup

 

Highlighted text is our recommendation

Potassium

  • Langbeinite (fast release)       ¾ cup

  • Flower Girl (slow release)       ¾ cup

 

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General Nutrients          

  • Dr. Earth 4-4-4 (slow)           1.5 cups

  • BioFish 7-7-2 (fast)                  ¾ cup

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Mineral Nutrients (Choose at least 4)

  • Asomite                                  ½ cup

  • Dolemite lime                         2 TBSP

  • Humic acid (heaping)             ¾ cup

  • Epsom Salt                              2 TBSP

  • Rock Dust                                4 cups

  • Gypsum                                   ½ cup

  • Green sand                              ½ cup

  • Oyster shells (crushed)          1½ cups

 

 

Highlighted text is our recommendation

The soil components are all there, but the soil is not quite finished yet. It needs to be cooked for a period of at least 30 days. Cooking the soil is allowing it to go through microbial breakdown which produces heat hence the term. Moisten soil with a Lacto mix for even faster microbial inoculation. (Mix 1 tsp LABS, 1 tsp Molasses, and 1 gallon of water. Shake until dissolved and use this to moisten your super soil.)

 

  • *Humic acids and seaweed, when used together in a 5:2 ratio, work 50% more effective than either product used along.

  • *Rock Dust is 200% more available when use4d with humic acid. Use when composting since humic acids are release during the composting stage.

  • *Bat guanos are added for flavor profile, feel free to mix and match as you the garden see fit.

  • Peatmoss is not recommended due to its environmental impact but do your research and decide for yourself.

 

KNF Inputs by stage:

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Why should I use this super soil when there are so many other options?

  • This recipe provides a more wholistic approach to soil building, and considers the more immediate needs of the plant along with longevity of soil.

  • This will provide a more stable balance of many nutrients that will give the plants all they need for the entire grow.

  • Once completed this mix can easily be re-amended and the soil reused pretty much forever without the need to remix the entire batch like others.

  • I consider all phases of nutrition where some recipes leave one or more component out thus leaving the plant to try and get it from other organic matter.

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