The tomatoes have grown quite a lot in just 6 days. It is scary.
Today I wanted to get stuff to make a trellis for the crazy tomatoes but it was a no go on that idea. We all went over to Home Depot but both Paul and I felt sick and child was getting hyper so I didn’t want to sit there figuring out how much of what to get to make a conduit trellis.
Instead we picked up some more bags in the garden area and went to Target to load up on cough medicine. I noticed they carry another brand of compost, so if I need more, that’s where my next bag is coming from.
We got home and I just opened and layered bags in the bed in the drizzle. Went back in to clean up — I can mix better another day. Sunset is upon us.
The annoying thing about filling this bed up is that while I know it is 24 cubic feet, different bags of things come in pounds, cubic feet, yards, kilograms, bushels, etc. The idea is that it takes 8 cubic feet of peat moss, 8 cubic feet of vermiculite, and 8 cubic feet of compost. Where peat moss is peat moss and vermiculite is vermiculite, finding 5 different brands of compost is taxing my patience. I’ll be doing good with three plus my own composting.
Also, if you want to use something besides peat moss, what can you use that is found locally? Peat moss isn’t the most sustainable choice. Argh. I do know you can order coir:
- http://www.plantitearth.com/store/product.asp?pid=203&catid=62
- http://www.grassrootsstore.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=175
So far the bed has got…
Two bags of Black Kow compost:
Two bags of Lambert Peat moss
One bag of Earthgro compost:
2 small bags of perlite (it was there, threw bag out though)
One bag of peat moss from Lowe’s (threw bag out)
Some existing dirt.
That brings us up to this:
The bottom layer us about full. Now I have to bring in the missing vermiculite and then see how far that takes us. Then top off with more compost.
