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Container Garden or Kitchen Garden – Know Your Soils & Build Your Own

written by Sherpa Guy

Grow on the Go; your container garden, know your  soils and what your plants like and build your own!

Build your own potting soil grow bag using bag colors and soil mixes.

Colors of potting soil grow bags to suit different types of vegetables.  This is not an exact science:

Vegetable Best grow bag color
Cucumber blue
Eggplant red
Muskmelon green
Onion red
Pepper silver
Potato red
Squash blue
Tomato red

Soil types that you can experiment with:

Perlite – good aeration and moisture retention
Vermiculite – good aeration, excellent moisture control and drainage
Peat moss
Sand

Top soil
Soil mix A – 1:1 perlite/peat moss plus 10:10:10 fertilizer
Soil mix B – 1:1:1 perlite/vermiculite/peat moss plus 10:10:10 fertilizer
Soil mix C – 1:1:1 top soil/sand/compost

Suggested fertilizers (organic):
•    Green sand – potassium
•    Rock Phosphate – potassium
•    Blood meal – nitrogen
•    Bone meal – potassium & nitrogen
•    Dehydrated manure – nitrogen

If you want to know more a great source of information about colors that optimize growing of vegetables and other plants, more information can be found at growingtaste If you like come back and try Grow on the Go the place to grow your own container garden

Soil types that you can experiment with:

Perlite – good aeration and moisture retention

Vermiculite – good aeration, excellent moisture control and drainage

Peat moss

Sand

Top soil

Soil mix A – 1:1 perlite/peat moss plus 10:10:10 fertilizer

Soil mix B – 1:1:1 perlite/vermiculite/peat moss plus 10:10:10 fertilizer

Soil mix C – 1:1:1 top soil/sand/compost

Suggested fertilizers (organic):

· Green sand – potassium

· Rock Phosphate – potassium

· Blood meal – nitrogen

· Bone meal – potassium & nitrogen

· Dehydrated manure – nitrogen

If you want to know more a great source of information about colors that optimize growing of vegetables and other plants, more information can be found at: www.growingtaste.com

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