In today's video, I test my soil and get some terrible results. You can see the whole analysis here: http://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/so...


Since we want to grow nutrient-dense food and add lots of micronutrients to our soil, I called Steve Solomon and he gave me a recipe to fix our bad soil. In today's video we mix up a batch of his recommended fertilizer and talk about what plants need to thrive.


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The complete recipe we used for my bad sandy soil:

4 quarts cottonseed meal
1 quart garden lime
2 cups pelletized gypsum
3.5 cups bonemeal
2/3 cup potassium sulfate
1.5 tbsp borax
2 tbsp manganese sulfate
2 tbsp zinc sulfate
2 tsp copper sulfate
1 quart kelp meal
1/8 tsp sodium molybdate

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