Agriculture Reference
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Do try your own blends too, but please use the ones suggested above first, as these are proven winners
in TLO and will help you to understand the fundamentals before you embark on trying your own mixes.
Unsteamed bone meal is much better to use globally in your soil mix than steamed bone meal
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Steamed bone meal is great for layers and spikes, but not so good to blend in
with a living soil mix like TLO. Also, things like blood meal and guanos (mixed in globally) must be
treated with much respect for their powers of destruction if overused. These additives are potentially
as destructive as they are beneficial. Mixing in too much dolomite lime will create a magnesium
overdose in your soil mix, so don't overdo that either. Unsteamed bone meal can be blended into
your soil mix globally, and it is easy to tell unsteamed bone meal because it is much more granular
than the steamed variety.
Layersandzonesessentiallyruntothesameconcept:concentratingsomenutrientsinaspecificlocation(s),
like with the spikes. In the case of layers and zones, you start with the “floor” of the container, which is
just the bottom (inside) of a growing container before any soil mix has been added. I normally apply a thin
splattering of a custom high-nitrogen blend here on the floor, along with some all-purpose dry nutrients,
before I add any soil mix to the container. I put another thin layer of just high nitrogen blend under the
bark mulch layer on top of the container mix once filled and spiked.
