March Magazine is on Planting

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Planting Seeds
Seedy Saturday Listing
What to do in the Edible Garden in March
Ask Bill Herring about Brussel Sprouts
Seattle's First Food Forrest
Keep Farmers on Farms
Upcoming Gardening Classes
Cool Ways to Grow Food
Recipe of the Month
March Events Calendar
Winter Gardening Class with Bill
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Potting Soil Mix for Transplants

Source: Design and Maintain your Edible Landscape by Robert Kourick

In a wheel barrow mix:
Equal parts peat moss, Virmiculite (med or course)
20 % Compost
1 1/2 lbs bonemeal (phosphorus)
1/2 lb dolomite lime (mag. & cal.)
1/2 lb oyster shell flour
1/2 lb blood meal (nitrogen)
1/4 lb gypsum (calcium)
1/8 lb kelpmeal (trace minerals)
3/4 lb dried granular molasses (feeds the bacteria in soil)

This is a potting mix you can use to grow on your transplants for quite some time before planting them out into the garden. 

When starting seeds, it's best to use a sterilized potting mix because it cuts down on loss due to damping off.  It has no nutrient value, so once the plants have reached the two leaf stage, it's best to move them into a nutrient rich soil such as the one above.

Happy Gardening
inJOY