The bag states it's a "natural organic" all-purpose garden soil. "With worm-castings for improved soil structure." "Feeds
up to three months" "for all herb & vegetable gardens."
It turns out that the ingredients vary by location, and it lists three different sets. One is highly unlikely (too far). The other two seem to be equally likely - IDK which applies, lol. So...
INGREDIENTS: This garden soil is regionally formulated from materials derived from one or more of the following: Canadian spagnum peat moss, processed pine bark, processed forest products and/or composted rice hulls, reed-sedge peat, ground dolomitic limestone (pH adjuster), organic fertilizer, and worm castings.
Product may vary slightly from region to region.
And one of these applies:
"...this product contains: processed pine bark, Canadian spagnum peat moss, reed-sedge peat, processed forest products, limestone (pH adjuster), organic fertilizer, and worm castings."
OR
"...this product contains: 65-75% processed pine bark, Canadian spagnum peat moss, processed forest products, limestone (pH adjuster), organic fertilizer, and worm castings."
So, no, not world-class soil. Directions are to pour a 2"-3" layer on top of the soil and mix it in.
.04 - .06 - .04 (nitrogen: .004% ammonical nitrogen, .004% water soluble nitrogen, .032% water insoluble nitrogen)
Derived from: poultry litter, feather meal, and worm castings.
I guess it needs more than a little Osmocote Plus and 25%-33% perlite to cheer it up, huh? Doggone it. Well, it
looks to be better than those bags of "top soil" that are barely adequate for filling in holes in your yard - and it was only a little more expensive.
I suppose I could
try growing mother plants in it. If they start looking unhealthy, I can take cuttings and root them in little cups of perlite, then discard the mothers, spread the soil out in my yard (which has roughly the contour of a plowed, furrowed field)... and mourn the waste of money and effort.
If I was a soil guy, I'd mix in some blood and bone meal, some mushroom compost, some kelp meal, a whole lot more earthworm castings, and probably other things. But that's
really not my comfort zone, TBH. My soil grows indoors have been of the "get a halfway decent soil that is known in the cannabis world, lighten it a good bit with perlite, and start pouring liquid nutrients into it as soon as the plant looks like it can use it," lol. Outdoors... It has been so long, I'd probably screw that up :rolleyes3 . Digging a huge hole and pouring sludge (err... don't ask) into the bottom of it, then mixing a small amount of that with a few other things into the removed soil as it gets put back in the hole, along with much perlite was a quick & dirty method that seemed to produce plants as large as I'd ever want to grow again under the sun and helicopters.
(Several bags of) this would probably have made a great addition to the fruit/vegetable area at Mom's house. But that's not helpful right now. I cannot grow cannabis there, for one thing. And she can't even really water her garden these days - I've been walking across town to do that, for the most part.
I have
some (less than a third of a bag, at this point, I think, and probably closer to 1/4) Fox Farm's Happy Frog that I was wanting to use mainly for the two to four plants at their earlier stages, because I know it's reasonably inoffensive to them. I
think I have some Fox Farm's Ocean Forest - maybe even half to 2/3 of a bag left. If I can find it... It might be in the shed. Or in the basement in a cobwebby corner. There's like one light down there, and no electrical outlets, so there could be a family of immigrints living down there and I'd never notice unless they started putting food in my refrigerator late at night. Or in a tote; there are totes and boxes here and there, because this is a pretty small house and I've really got more stuff than I have room for - and that doesn't even count all the stuff that Mom has asked me to store "for a little while" every time someone in the family goes for the long dirt nap and she gets stuck dealing with the mess. I lost one of my cats for like four days once, lol (and that was different than the time he managed to get into the attic and ended up finding out how to get all the way down in the first-floor wall (thought I was going to have to tear a wall out). No, he just wandered into one of the "storage rooms."
Anyway, I've got a small amount of Happy Frog, and more Ocean Forest (but not a full bag - think I filled a five-gallon bucket and a couple of two-gallon ones, along with two or three two-liter bottles, which were all suitably cut with perlite). And I have the organic (IDK about when it was packaged, but I did some web-searching trying to find more information on it and saw that it was a registered OMRI product as of March, 2016 I think). I also have... <RUNS OUT TO SHED> a full one cubic foot bag of Osmocote Potting Soil and <COUGH> a full one cubic foot bag of MiracleGro Organic Choice (<SHRUGS> someone gave it to me). Both of those are a couple years old, but have been kept from any flooding because they're laying on a big bag of diazinon granules (banned for residential use since 2004, LMAO). I vaguely remember that stuff was a replacement for a replacement for something that was pretty good at killing creepy crawlies. Now IT has been replaced. IDK why they bother, FFS. IIRC, DDT was banned in 1972 and I think one can still detect traces of it in just about every man, woman, and child in the country 44 years later. But maybe bugs have kept away from those two bags of soil, IDK.
I could just pour every one of the soils together, mix them up, and... no.
BtW, I did manage to find a web page on the latest waste of what little money I was able to spend on gardening:
Jolly Gardener Products, Inc.
As you can see, there is a wealth of information there [/SARCASM] .
) strains might not be "big eaters," though. Neither is predominately indica - one is about half and half, the other is only about 10% indica.
