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compacting more and more the whole time. Anaerobic conditions can set in and living roots will die if this
happens. Plants will die an ugly death. Using something like bark mulch in the bottom of your containers
for aeration will do the same thing, and this mulch will likely become anaerobic fairly quickly in a living
TLO soil mix. Use perlite, my very green friends. That is your prime aeration amendment in TLO contain-
er growing and your rule of thumb if winging it is to use about 33% perlite; so if I had 3 gallons of TLO
soil mix, 1 gallon of it should always be small, nugget-sized perlite.
Recycling soil mixes with lots of additives can throw up some issues
REV'S TIP
On the Fly TLO Quick (No Cooking) Mix—On the fly you can make a really
great and fast soil mix for TLO and it's really simple. 1 part perlite, 1 part earthworm castings, and 1
part good bagged organic soil mix (with Mycorrhizal fungus if possible). Then add about 1 table-
spoon of dry all-purpose, all-natural fertilizer with even N-P-K numbers, like 5-5-5 for example, per
gallon of soil mix. It makes a bad-ass mix that requires no cooking, so don't add anything else; even
something like alfalfa meal or any manure/ guanos would be a mistake here with this mix.
