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Links for the Summer 2009 Newsletter

Food Safety Article

Colloquy in the Congressional Record

NSAC's response to the Dingell letter

Seed Starting Mixes

Seed mix #1

  • 5 buckets compost (well rotted)
  • 4 buckets topsoil (loam)
  • 1-2 buckets sharp sand
  • 1-2 buckets leaf mold
  • 1 bucket sphagnum peat moss
  • 2 tablespoons lime

Seed mix #2

  • 2 bucket sifted compost
  • 4 bucket sphagnum peat moss
  • I bucket perlite
  • 1 bucket vermiculite
  • 4 oz. lime

Seed mix #3:

  • Standard soilless
  • 50 to 75 percent sphagnum peat moss
  • 25 to 50 percent vermiculite
  • 5 lbs. of ground limestone per cubic yard of mix

"Organic seedling mix"

  • 6 gallons sphagnum peat moss
  • 1/4 cup lime
  • 4.5 gallons vermiculite
  • 4.5 gallons compost
  • 1 1/2 cups fertility mix made of: 2 cups ' colloidal (rock) phosphate,2 cups greensand, 112 cup bonemeal, 1/4 cup kelp meal

Another "Organic seedling mix"

  • 10 gallons sifted 2-year-old leaf mold
  • 1 0 gallons sifted compost
  • 5-1 0 gallons sphagnum peat moss
  • 5 gallons perlite
  • 5 gallons coarse river sand
  • 2 cups bloodmeal
  • 6 cups bonemeal