What is the pH factor for this soil? Also how many bags do I need for a 4 ft by 4 ft vegetable garden.
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I check the ph of my water/nutrients, I have not tested the PH of soil, but I had a major issue with gnats the first go round- summer fruit, they gnawed my flowers.
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Hi,I believe they recommend using the whole bag of their Dolomite mixed in top 4" of soil. Probably most important for plants like tomatoes.
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the medium vegtrug holds 390 L or 13.75 cubic feet of soil, bags come in various sizes but common would be 2CFt so you would need about 7.
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It's been a while, but I think it took 3 or 4 of the 9 cu ft bags for each side. And there was room for more. It also depends on what you're planting and how deep you want the soil.
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I have owned this product since early spring and used it throughout the summer. A couple of weeks ago, I took out my spring/ summer plants and emptied it completely. Then, I put all new soil in so I could plant a mum and some pansies. In other words, this information is fresh in my mind. I bought a 2 cu ft bag of Miracle Grow's Garden Soil, and used ALMOST the entire bag. I had just enough left over to fill a couple of pots. So, my answer is that this requires a little less than 2 cu. ft. Hope that helps!
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I used about 10 bags of 2 cubic feet. If you could find some cheap (but clean, uncontaminated) fill dirt, you could use less good quality soil on top.
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I used 12 cubic feet or 6 bags of 2 cubic feet of Miracle-Gro Potting Soil. This left a 2" space at the top. I also used a liner. Everything seems very happy. Where I live the Potting Mix was a bit pricey, but that amount worked well for me. Good luck!
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Hi, I used about 3 large bags of high quality potting soil, FoxFarm "Ocean Forest" from a place called Indoor Garden and Lighting: www.indoorgarden.com. It has worked amazing! We put about 500 red wiggler worms in the middle tube and water about once a week. We catch about 4 gallons of the rich nutrients from the soil and organic plant food out of the bottom holes when we water and put that on the rest of our garden. You will be amazed! The soil we used costs a lot on Amazon, but we paid about $14 USD a bag on sale at Indoor Garden and Lighting. You do not want to use the cheap dense soil at the hardware chains, even the expensive ones are not clean like the Ocean Forest Potting Soil. Another one I like is Happy Frog Potting Soil, it is a very high quality soil as well. Good luck and hope that helps! Mike
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What size are your pots? I have outdoor 20 yeas old plants and added about 3 cups to each plant this spring working it into the soil (Two months ago). I have not noticed a change either. It can take years to lower the ph properly. I would check the ph after two months and add more working it into the soil if the ph does not start to drop. Make sure you are checking the ph properly. A ph change of 0.5 is actually a large change because of how the scale works
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Are you referring to square foot gardening? If so... When filling your garden you mix 5 different types of compost to make up 1/3 of the mixture of blended compost, vermiculite/perlite and peat moss. If you are using a 4x4 garden you would need 2.6 cubic feet of blended compost (5 different kinds of compost). If you are replanting a square in an already prepared bed, just mix one trowel of compost or earthworm castings into the sq ft (small hand shovel) prior to sowing seeds or adding your transplants. Hope this has been helpful. :)
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Since to me the answer 10% is confusing, I read the label on a virtually identical product. It says add 1/8th of an inch to the top & mix it into the top couple of inches of soil or dirt mix. It also says just use 8 pounds per 100 square feet. That should make it easier to figure out. In a 4 x 4 ft square garden you'd have 16 square feet, 16/100 x 8 lbs = 1.28 pounds = 1 pound and 4 and 1/2 ounces for the 16 square feet of garden (assuming you're doing the square foot garden idea with 4 ft x 4 ft outer dimensions.
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You would need other substrate in addition to this as it is not a Stand alone substrate. Use about 1/4 of this bag and the rest as a custom mix. Completely depends on your scaping though, as well as the root base demands of your plants. Look up a few aqu scaping forums for more details
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I think you can get about 1 1/2, 5 gallon pots with this. In all honesty, I'd look for a shop that sells the larger bags for less. I pay $6.99 for this size from a gardening shop down the street. Excellent soil, just not worth the shipping if you know how to mature your own soil. If you are interested in that, Google Dragonfly Earth Medicine for some of the best home soil conditioning advice ever!
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I actually used potting soil because allegedly it has more nutrients but this year I'll go with bagged garden soil since it's cheaper. The good thing about planting in these pots is that there's less weeding to be done. A definite plus in my book!
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The instructions called for a 4 x 4 x 4 foot hole. I live in Central Florida where it is all sand.I put down garden cloth on the bottom then put a layer of 4 inches of 3/4" gravel (12 - 50lb bags) then put the dry well on top of the gravel then covered the remaining gravel with garden cloth and wrapped the dry well in garden cloth. Then filled the remaining hole with sand.
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I used 3 for my 3x3 square foot garden..they recommend 4 bags for a 4x4 raised bed garden.
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I was able to get 5 small plants in each bag. I filled the bag about 1/3 of the way with soil and rolled down the excess so plants could get light. As the plants grew I added more soil ( essentially hilling the potatoes)and urolled the bag. I was able to get a large crop of potatoes by using this method.