The Clackamas Coot Nutrient and Mineral Kit bundles the amendments used in Coot's living soil recipe, plus malted barley for blending and topdressing.
Key things we want you to know
Mix rate: 2 cups of the nutrient and mineral pack per cubic foot (about 1/4 cup per gallon) of soil mix.
Quality matters: The key to this mix is high quality compost or earthworm castings.
Tested: Heavy metals report included below.
What's in the Kit
For blending and topdressing: Malted barley
For mixing into soil (per cubic foot):
- 1 cup crustacean meal
- 1 cup kelp meal
- 1/2 cup neem cake
- 1/2 cup karanja cake
- 1 cup basalt
- 1 cup gypsum
- 1 cup calcium carbonate (ag lime)
Suggested Application
Apply at a rate of 2 cups per cubic foot, or approximately 1/4 cup per gallon of mix, when mixing soil.
Coot's soil recipe per cubic foot of soil (7.5 gallons):
- 1/3 sphagnum peat moss
- 1/3 aeration amendment (pumice, lava rock, perlite, vermiculite, rice hulls, etc.)
- 1/3 high quality compost and/or earthworm castings
- 2 cups of Coot's Nutrient and Mineral Pack
- 2 cups of malted barley: blend 1 cup into a powder and mix it into the soil. Top dress the other cup at 1/4 cup per week starting in week 3 or 4. Blend the barley right before applying.
The compost and castings portion holds the highest concentration of beneficial microbes, which are needed to break the nutrients down into a plant-available form.