Garden Launch Workshop
Choosing What to Grow:
Crop Rotation Information:
Crop Rotation Diagram
Vegetable Families Table
Setting Up Your Planting Calendar:
Average Frost Date Calculator
Visual Planting Dates Calculator
Equal Parts:
- Nitrogen Fertilizer: Feather meal or Soybean meal
- Greensand: Contains a broad-spectrum of micro-nutrients. An alternative is a dried seaweed product like kelp meal.
- Soft-rock Phosphate (Colloidal Phosphate): A clay material that provides phosphate needs to young plants
Full Recipe (makes 14 gallons of mix)
- Peat Moss: 6 gallons
- Compost: 6 gallons
- Course Perlite: 2 gallons
- Fertilizer Mix: 2 cups
Half Recipe (makes 7 gallons of mix)
- Peat Moss: 3 gallons
- Compost: 3 gallons
- Course Perlite: 1 gallon
- Fertilizer Mix: 1 cup
Quarter Recipe (makes 3.5 gallons of mix)
- Peat Moss: 1.5 gallons
- Compost: 1.5 gallons
- Course Perlite: 1/2 gallon
- Fertilizer Mix: 1/2 cup