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Project Start - Day 1 - 03.04.2022

A project log for Soiltesting with Garden Cress

Putting soilmixes to the test

red-tukaRed Tuka 06/06/2022 at 21:140 Comments

The initial seeding of garden cress on 03. April 2022:

The soil samples where mixed in 7 variations from the following ingredients:

  1.  Municipal compost from a local treatment plan (thermophilic compost - short and hot composting)
  2. Garden compost from our household (mostly kitchen and garden scraps - 1year matured)
  3. Coco fibers
  4. sugar beet flakes (dried) - sourced locally - protein source
  5. MgSO4 - Bitter Salt
  6. Activated Charcoal
  7. Perlite pellets (local vulcanic stone - crushed
[volume percent % ]
Var 1Var 2Var3Var 4Var5Var 6 Var 7
Municipal compost
18036313656
18
Garden compost
1836000018
Coco fibers
24242424342432
Sugar beet flakes
10101015101010
Bitter Salt
0.10.10.10.10.10.10.1
Charcoal
8888880
Basalt powder
2222222
Perlite Pellets
2020
202010020
CommentStandard
Only own compost
Only municipal
Like Var 3, more sugarbeet
Like Var 3, less perlite more coco
More Compost, no perlite
like var 1 ,  no charcoal

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