How to Make Inexpensive Container Soil With Coco Coir: Planting Lettuce & Dwarf Peas
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- The spring and fall are great times to grow cool weather vegetables in containers. This video shows you how to use coco coir to make your own inexpensive garden container mix. I cover the mix, basic fertilizing and show you how I plant up lettuce and dwarf peas.
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fantastic thank you
woooop am i finally the first comment? I've been waiting my entire youtube watching career for this moment. nice vid gary keep up the awesome work!
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Hi, Gary. Put me in for second place! Question,. I don't have old soil or fish emulsion. I planted my seeds in Coco coir & worm castings. Can I water with worm casting tea instead? I have that!
This is such an informative channel I m new to it and I m loving it
Glad you are enjoying it
I'm now going down the coco coir rabbit hole and I've learned that not all coco coir is made/sold the same way.
So it's entirely possible to add some bad coco coir to your soil (or make new soil with it) and harm your plants.
Unfortunately, I don't know if there's a way to know this beforehand, but based on what people are saying, they do recommend good brands and higher cost coir as a possible way to avoid that. In other words, if you found some cheap brand or product of coco coir, there might be a reason for it.
will it be possible to use only coco coir without mixing it with any soil to plants lettuce?
Sounds a lot like Chuck Schumer. My coir arrived today.
This guy sounds exactly like Gary Pilarchik
it is
Get information! I just got some coco coir and I’m excited to use it! I heard that I need to wash it and with certain water? Do you have any tips?
When purchasing the coco coir check if it's been already washed by the manufacturer. Usually quality coco coir mix are triple washed, low EC and the PH, and they usually provide a data sheet about the product itself with all these information and more.
If you don't have any of this info provided it's probably a cheap product and to be sure you'll have to wash multiple times by yourself, and also sterilize it with boiling water.
I've purchased Coco and Coir products, they sell different kind of sizes and version of coco coir blocks to be rehydrated.
They provide all the info about their product.
Actually, I'm about to use it for the first time today :)
Hi Gary, I just planted pepper seeds in Burpees new coco coir kit. Am I going to have a problem trensfereing to a potting mix and or the ground when the time comes?
Sorry, but how do you write water sailable(?) fertiliser?
Kind regards from the Netherlands.
Water soluble fertiliser
@@pershop4950 ah, thanks! It makes sense now.
Enrich soil.
will it work in a hot house
Yes, it should
What about drainage? Do I need to add perlite?
if you were starting with just the coir, you can add perlite. in the case of this video, Gary adds it to some existing old potting mix.
This sounds like Gary rust garden guy
It is - Gary is growing our AAS Winners in his garden and working with us on our AAS videos
Do you need to clean old roots?
I break the up or toss large chunks
Isnt this the same guy from Gary pilchaks rusted farms???
Or do all Americans sound like him?
I killed my 12 tomato seedlings when I used a 50:50 mix with this stuff. The plants completely wilted and died within 2 days. My 1 st aid attempts were useless. Now with about 10 bricks Im afraid to use this without hearing from others success with it.
your brand of coco coir may have not had the salt rinsed out of it. what was the other 50%?