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Our Variety and Plant Spacing ListThis cheat sheet lists our favorite varieties and the ideal plant spacing we use when growing in our 30 inch wide beds. These are the spacings to use when marking out the beds with the bed rake and row markers.
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
Hand Held Soil Blockers
3/4" Mini Soil Blocker
1 1/2" Soil Blocker
2" Soil Blocker
4" Large Soil Blocker
Full Size Stand-Up Soil Blockers
Dibble Set
Dibbles are used for making different sized impressions on the top of each soil block or for making a larger square impression for either potting on smaller plants germinated in the mini blocks or for seeding large seeds.
Soil Block Propagation Trays
Propagation trays are useful for handling and transporting your soil blocks around.