Hi Everyone,
First time gardener from Ohio need your help. TIA.
I am planning for vegetable plants in a wooden boxes of size 4 foot x 4 foot x 8 inches (=~ 11 cubic foot). Four of these boxes makes 45 cubic foot approximately.
I filled these four boxes with the soil less medium as following:
Coarse Vermiculite 15 cubic foot
Sphagnum Peat Moss  15 cubic foot
`Compost kind of` Â 15 cubic foot (1 cubic foot each of below)
I have searched 50+ of garden centers locally (zip code: 45040) and couldn't find so called "COMPOST". For next year I will be preparing my own compost so this question won't arise. But, to begin my first/fresh vegetable garden; in the place of compost I used the following
mix. I mixed them *VERY* thorough spending a week.
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Question: is the following mix 'OK' to begin my garden? Am I sort of something here? Am I going to kill the plants with Over dosage? Any other suggestions/ideas to help myself is greatly appreciated.
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My `Compost kind of` - 15 cubic foot is:
1.Mother Nature's  SWEET PEET  Composted soil conditioner  1 cubic foot
2.Nea's  POSY POWER  Powerful soil booster  1 cubic foot
3.Premier Horticulture  PRO MIX  Growing mix  1 cubic foot
4.Nature's Helper  MUSHROOM COMPOST  Organic soil  1 cubic foot
5.Garden Magic  COMPOST AND MANURE  Peat & Manure  1 cubic foot
6.Ace  COMPOSTED MANURE  Loosens soil  1 cubic foot
7.New Plant Life  MUSHROOM COMPOST SOIL  Soil amendment - 1 cubic foot
8.Garden Scape  PEAT HUMUS  Decomposed Organic  - 1 cubic foot
9.Garden Scape  COW MANURE  will not burn  1 cubic foot
10.Organic Valley  HUMUS  ready to use  1 cubic foot
11.Organic Valley  COW MANURE PLUS ORGANIC COMPOST  Ready to use  1 cubic foot
12.Organic Valley  ORGANIC COMPOST PLUS MANURE  Compost & manure  1 cubic foot
13.Garick  MOO NURE  Organic Compost with Cow Manure  1 cubic foot
14.Country Stone  COMPOSTED COW MANURE  Soil conditioner  1 cubic foot
15.Earth Gro  ORGANIC HUMUS AND MANURE  Soil amendment  1 cubic foot
Thanks & Regards
Ganesh
In detail (if you are still reading this post ;-) ) Assuming the
product is what the cover says.
1.Mother Nature's  SWEET PEET  Composted soil conditioner  1 cubic foot
Organic material made from wood shavings, farm manure & plant fibers (USCC)
2.Nea's  POSY POWER  Powerful soil booster  1 cubic foot
All Organic: Horse manure, sphagnum Peat, Brewer's Grain, Gypsum & lime
0.7% 0.45% 1.0%
3.Premier Horticulture  PRO MIX  Growing mix  1 cubic foot
Compost Enrich (from shrimp, seaweed, softwood bark), Microrise inside, Sphagnum Peat Moss, Peat Humus (OMRI)
4.Nature's Helper  MUSHROOM COMPOST  Organic soil  1 cubic foot
5.Garden Magic  COMPOST AND MANURE  Peat & Manure  1 cubic foot
Reed sedge Peat, Manure
0.1% 0.1% 0.1%
6.Ace  COMPOSTED MANURE  Loosens soil  1 cubic foot
0.5% 0.5% 0.5%
7.New Plant Life  MUSHROOM COMPOST SOIL  Soil amendment - 1 cubic foot
8.Garden Scape  PEAT HUMUS  Decomposed Organic  - 1 cubic foot
A decomposed organic forest peat fiber
9.Garden Scape  COW MANURE  will not burn  1 cubic foot
1% 1% 1%
10.Organic Valley  HUMUS  ready to use  1 cubic foot
11.Organic Valley  COW MANURE PLUS ORGANIC COMPOST  Ready to use  1 cubic foot
0.05% 0.05% 0.05% (USCC)
12.Organic Valley  ORGANIC COMPOST PLUS MANURE  Compost & manure  1 cubic foot
0.05% 0.05% 0.05%
13.Garick  MOO NURE  Organic Compost with Cow Manure  1 cubic foot
0.2% 0.2% 0.2% (USCC)
14.Country Stone  COMPOSTED COW MANURE  Soil conditioner  1 cubic foot
Cow manure, Peat and Humus
0.05% 0.05% 0.05%
15.Earth Gro  ORGANIC HUMUS AND MANURE  Soil amendment  1 cubic foot
90% organic humus (peat, compost, forest products) and 10% manure
0.05% 0.05% 0.05%
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