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Make Your Own Organic 'Green' Planting Mix
"If your garden was there before you were, most likely came from "many dreams." ~ Ferris Cook
It means spring gardening again! It's time to put your plants in their outdoor beds. Thus, many home gardeners make the fundamental error to put bedding plants in the same old worn floor they have used for years. I dig a little, maybe throw in some fertilizer, and expect their plants to make the rest. I know a better way.
You can make a planting mix from scratch that your plants will love. It's easy and simple to do, takes little time, and is relatively cheap. The end result is worth the small effort and minimal cost.
First, start with a good packing some soil type. It need not be costly brand name for which you pay a premium. Only a reasonable quality soil as a base for the rest of the mixture. For our project, say you buy a stock room 20 this product – a common size in most nurseries.
Then buy a small bag of racks pure worm. It will have four quarters – about 10 pounds – to the mix. Ensure you have real castings, worm and not a good quality product that is commonly diluted in market. Nature's Big Bud Worm Castings Premium version makes a liquid that can also be used. racks of the worm (worm manure) are fertilizers and nature's miracle fertilizer. They are organic, all natural, and contain over 60 beneficial elements your plants need and use in healthy growth, good root systems, stronger stems and branches and beautiful flowers or fruits. Once moistened, they retain water in the soil thus providing an additional benefit of water saving time and money.
Buy a small bag of composted steer manure. This is cheap and add nitrogen to the soil in abundance. The key is to not use too much of this in your mix. My suggestion is just four quarters.
Finally, take a pound of natural cassava powder Shidigera (Mohave Yucca) to add to the mix. Cassava is another organic, all natural product and is a wetting agent (surfactant) which makes water wetter. This will allow water to remain in the soil and your plants will a faster way to absorb nutrients from the soil mix. Cassava also contains natural steroids such as saponin which help control insects and the disease once your plants absorb it in your system.
Now you have the ingredients for success in making a nutrient-rich soil water retention mix plant beds. Putting them together is the next step. Dump the bag of 20 quarts of soil on a flat surface clean and dry. To add four quarts of the worm and racks 4 liters of beef manure compost. Next add the yucca extract powder. With a shovel, turn the stack of a couple of times until all ingredients are well mixed.
This is your potting mix. Digging holes in your garden, fill them with this mixture and plant the beds of their plants or seeds in it. (This mixture is also ideal for container gardening – nothing better on the market at half the price you pay for the luxury goods brand.) you have made a completely organic, all natural products, made in house that will benefit you, your plants and the environment without using toxic chemicals. You will be more than happy with the results. Thus plants.
(More information is available at www.naturesbigbud.com )
"A society is great when the old plant trees in whose shade they know men never sit."
About the Author
Major Dennis Copson is a retired US Marine living in Oceanside, Ca where he is the Director of Sales and Marketing for Nature’s Big Bud Worm Castings and a feelance writer.
