John asks…
Request for comments (Soilless medium)?
Hi Everyone,
First time gardener from Ohio need your help. TIA.
I am planning for vegetable plants in a (container) 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` – 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%
GardenersCardiff answers:
Sounds okay. Not sure about items 2 and 3 but they don’t sound like anything that would hurt. For not finding “compost” you have a lot of compost in there. I think your garden should grow great.
Richard asks…
What if life is literally one big drug trip?
For starters, this is simply a theory in a sea of theories that I have about what life could possibly be, so please, don’t take it too seriously.
But, what if life is a giant drug trip that we don’t even remember? People who take drugs like LSD often enter trips knowingly, but as soon as the trip takes a turn for the worst, they immediately forget and interpret everything as “real”.
Imagine this before you were “born”
Your friend: Dude, I wouldn’t try life if I were you, I heard it’s some pretty heavy stuff and you have to be mentally prepared for the trip.
You: I think I’m ready for life, man. I’ve always wanted to try it. Are you going to do it or am I going to have to do this alone?
Your friend: Haha.. go for it, man.. I’m good. I heard some pretty crazy stories about people on life, I don’t think I could handle it.
You: Alright, well I’m doing some life, fuck it
Like all most drug trips, they begin nicely. Like mushroom trips or LSD, but very soon, they take a turn for the worst, you begin to suffer through the bad trip.
Isn’t that kind of what life is like? At first (childhood) life is USUALLY an amazing time period, but at you slowly but surely age (or progress through the trip), life USUALLY becomes miserable. You either realize or experience suffering or both, amongst the many negative aspects that almost everyone is inveitably forced to face in life (ie. violence, war, racism, sexism, hate, cheating, sins, prejudice, physical pain of aging etc.) What if growing up is part of the drug of life – a trip going very bad.
Of course like drugs like LSD and shrooms some people have an entire trip without having a bad trip and are lucky (such as rich people, famous people, people who find meaning in life or love etc.)
What if people who commit suicide in life in fact commit suicide in their “real” life outside of the drug trip – just like people do when they can no longer distinguish a drug trip from reality? Because they could no longer handle “life” so they killed themselves. Other people ride the trip (life) all the way to the end.
Most people (not all) learn various amounts of important things in life by the time they die. Just like people go through drug trips (good or bad) become “reborn” or “enlightened” or with new perspectives etc.
What if that’s the meaning of life?
I don’t know, it’s an interesting theory that I thought up. Have any of you had thoughts similar to the meaning of life?
For the record, I don’t do any drugs, I just enjoy thinking.. sometimes perhaps too much for my own good.
What if life was “perfect” outside of the life that we currently know? (outside of the trip) – There was no logical reasoning behind wanting to do the drug life, but we did it anyway.
Sort of like Eve giving in to temptation and eating the forbidden fruit. What if life is symbolic of the story of Adam and Eve and vise versa?
GardenersCardiff answers:
Calm down junkie, it’s not…
Laura asks…
anyone wants to make a minecraft community for xbox?
A community where people have jobs and ranks and people dealing with trading stuff.
maximum 8 players and 8 ranks
1:President = can make what ever decision he demands
2:vice president = same thing as president but with less power
3:major= decides what building go where(needs presidents permission first)
4: architect = decides the model and how it will look like( needs presidents permission)
5:constructors = builds what ever the major and president agree on
6:Lumberjack= collect’s wood 25 tree trunks a day
7:farmer= needs to make crops and mushroom and sugar canes and you can trade what ever for it
8:Miner/blacksmith=goes out mining and makes tools for us and keeps half of what he finds. the other half he will need to trade to us.
Everyone will get to build there own house. and there work house. and the rest of things,statue watchtower stadiums etc will have to be decided by the president and major and the architect will have to make the design that will be builded by the constructors.
When everyone is finished with thier job for the day they are free to make there house bigger.
This is the amount required to finish your job for the day.
Lumberjack:25 of any type of tree trunk when done place it inside the workplace in a chest.
Farmer:the only time really he will be working is when planting and cutting the crops and while the crops are growing you will have a break until the crops are ready to chop.
Constructor: will have to finish any task given to him the only time he has free time is at night
architect:take your time man and thinks of stuff to make the community look good
major:you will have to make the land flat on the places you want to build
MY GAMER TAG IS: oscrios99 send me a message telling me what job interested in.
Time: every day between 1pm to 11pm
GardenersCardiff answers:
If you do make this, you should put it on the forums and create a group at http://www.noobgamer.co.uk !!
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George asks…
What are some quotes about trees/gardens/plants that profoundly relate to volunteering?
For example,
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit” ~Nelson Henderson.
GardenersCardiff answers:
The quote you gave [“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit”] is one of my favorites.
Other quotes I’ve used in connection with volunteerism (some of which *directly* relate to nature, and some of which only *indirectly* do) are as follow:
The breeze, the trees, the honey bees –
All volunteers!
~Juliet Carinreap
Do not be afraid to go out on a limb … That’s where the fruit is.
– Anonymous
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is more pleasure in making a garden than in contemplating a paradise.- Anne Scott-James
Gardens will be the peaceful haven we all need. -Paul Tukey
Mental sunshine will cause the flowers of peace, happiness and prosperity to
grow upon the face of the earth. Be a creator of mental sunshine.–Kathi’s Garden
Gardens are not created or made, they unfold,
spiraling open like the silk petals of an evening
primrose flower to reveal the ground plot of the
mind and heart of the gardener
and the good earth.
– Wendy Johnson
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty of the trees,
the softness of the air,
the fragrance of the grass,
speaks to me.
The summit of the mountain,
the thunder of the sky,
speaks to me.
The faintness of the stars,
the trail of the sun,
the strength of fire,
and the life that never goes away,
they speak to me.
And my heart soars.
– Chief Dan George
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
– William Blake, Auguries of Innocence, 1863
How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston
The work an unknown good [person] has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ~Thomas Carlyle
“May you remember that though the roads we take can sometimes be difficult, those are often the ones that lead to the most beautiful views.” Douglas Pagels
“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” Vesta M. Kelly
“One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.” Jack Penn
The world is hugged by the faithful arms of volunteers. ~Everett Mámor
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.” Archimedes
“Volunteers polish up the rough spots in our communities.” Jefferson Award Winner Alice Sandstrom
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.–Booker T. Washington
We believe that love is the most powerful healing force in the universe.
Mission Statement
Network for Attitudinal Healing International
In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal.
In every heart there is the power to do it. Marianne Williamson
Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. –Theodore Isaac Rubin
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate. Albert Schweitzer
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Charles Kuralt
When you are kind to someone in trouble,
you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else,
and it’ll become like a wildfire.
Whoopi Goldberg
Sandy asks…
what are some quotes from Garden State?
i mean profound ones, but if you want to put funny ones in thats fine.
GardenersCardiff answers:
Andrew: You’ll see when you move out it just sort of happens one day one day and it’s just gone. And you can never get it back. It’s like you get homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. I mean it’s like this rite of passage, you know. You won’t have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it’s like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that’s all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.
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Sam: This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before and that no one will copy throughout human existence. And if nothing else, you will be remembered as the one guy who ever did this. This one thing.
William asks…
Where can I get quotes for a water garden online?
I’ve found several designs online I’m interested in but I never can seem to find a cost to go along with them.
GardenersCardiff answers:
I’lll give you a price. I put in 2. A 2×5′, and a 4×8′. All the plants, stone, pumps, fish and landscaping cost me $325.00. It took me about 12 hours, over 3 days. I live in NW Ohio.
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