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ADDITIVES FOR RECYCLED SOIL MIX
These are basic guidelines and remember that all this stuff needs to be cooked (composted)
first for about 30 days before use. I will give these to you in per (dry US) gallon of soil mix
amounts, so just do a little simple math to make larger amounts.
Per single dry US gallon of soil mix:
• Kelp meal: 1 tablespoon
• Blood meal: 1-2 teaspoons
• Bone meal: 1 tablespoon
• Dolomite lime powdered: 1-2 tablespoons
• Dolomite lime pelletized (prilled): 2-4 tablespoons
• Bird or bat guano (high nitrogen types): 1-3 teaspoons
• Bird or bat guano (high phosphorus types): 1-2 teaspoons
• Bulb food: 1 tablespoon
• Alfalfa meal: 1 tablespoon
• Greensand: 1 tablespoon
• Gypsum powdered: 1 tablespoon
• Gypsum granular: 2 tablespoons
• Living earthworm castings: 1 cup
• Perlite (always use small nugget size): 2 cups
• Coconut (coir) fiber (well rinsed or pre rinsed): 2 cups
• Humic acid ore (granular): 1 tablespoon
• Rice (raw): 1 tablespoon
• All purpose fertilizer like 5-5-5 N-P-K: 1 tablespoon
• Feather meal: 1-2 tablespoons
• Oyster shell (ground): 1 tablespoon
• Oyster shell (crushed): 2-3 tablespoons
• Azomite powdered (rock dust): 1 teaspoon
• Azomite granular: 1-3 teaspoons
• Soft rock phosphate powdered: 1-2 teaspoons
• Rock phosphate granular: 2-3 teaspoons
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