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Welcome....to my blog "Grow Food with JOY!"

My name is Joy Story and I'm an avid gardener who believes that food is so important, that we all need to be growing it.

In May of 2010 , I began my business GROW FOOD Edible Garden Designs. I offer Garden Consulting, Designing, Gardening Classes and this online monthly blog as well as sell Organic seeds that we collect in our demonstration garden.

Our Organic Gardening Classes are called "Grow Food with JOY!" How I use perma-culture in my Backyard." We discuss all aspects to consider when designing your edible garden. Perma-Culture uses Mother Nature as a model with an emphasis on caring for the earth and caring for people. So far, "Grow Food with JOY" has a series of 7 different classes with more being created all the time. Check out our Class Schedule on the website.

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Happy Gardening



Sunday, March 4, 2012

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
Posted by growfood at 5:02 PM

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