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Re: customizing soil for container vegie gardening (fwd)

At 08:51 AM 8/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
>
>rich,moderately rich,poor;light,heavy;loamy,medium
>loamy,slightly sandy,sandy;friable;good,average good,average;loose,firm;
>fertile;humusy;moist,dry;well-drained;well-aerated,porous
>
	If I had to make up some pots like this, I would probably do the
following. Please do not take this as gospel, it's just how I would start,
then adjust as I got more experience.

	I would get buckets of 
	A) Coarse Sand
	B) Fine Sand
	C) Powdered Clay
	D) Composted Cow Manure
	E) Composted Leaves and wood chips
	F) Incompletely composted leaves
	G) Worms and soil fungus innoculant

	Then I would mix them by hand in general amounts as below, adjusting as I
saw what it looked like... Probably considering one part Clay to be
actually one half part...

rich: 		One part Everything
moderately rich:	One Part everything but D
poor:		One part A, B, C, F
light:		One part A, B, E
heavy:		One Part B, C, D, E
loamy:		One part A, B, D, F, G
medium		One part A, C, D, F, G, two Parts B
slightly sandy:	"Light"
sandy:		"Poor"
friable:		Everything but C
good:		"Rich"
average good:	"moderately rich"
average:		One Part A, B, C, D, F,G
loose:		"Friable"
firm:		One part B, C, D, E
fertile:		"Rich"
humusy:		Everything but B
moist:		One part B, C, D, E, G, two parts F
dry:		"Light"
well-drained:	Light
well-aerated:	LIght
porous:		Light

	Since I am doing this sitting in front of the computer, I am sure I messed
up something and probably forgot a whole class of ingredients, but perhaps
this will give you something to start with and others will help me out by
suggesting changes or improvements... I'll bet you'll need some lime...

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