@Gonzo check out this post, the trifecta is Bio-Tone Starter, Plant-Tone, and Tomato-Tone.
You could swap out the BTS for Down To Earth Bio-Live or Bio-Fish if that’s around instead, I think the Tomato-Tone is worth finding for flowering. This year I mixed up potting mix from 4cf of ProMix moisture control, 1.5cf Espoma Organic Raised Bed Mix, 1cf composted cow manure (Wicked Good from Connecticut Organics), 2qt CoM EWC, 1qt Espoma Lightning Lime, and a five gallon bucket of the local topsoil and compost mix we filled the raised beds with last year.
That was the base and then I added 3c Tomato-Tone, 3c Plant-Tone, 3c Bio-Fish, 3c Dr Earth 4-6-3, 2c Bio-Tone Starter, 2c insect frass, 1c Roots seabird guano, and a cup of AgSil16H as nutes and micros and mycos etc. I filled a quart takeout with a cup each of rolled oats, basmati rice, flax seed meal, and chickpea flour and mixed that in too, to give the soil something to chew on as it wakes up and it can colonize new territory along with the sterile ProMix. That’s cooking under a tarp in the driveway for a week or so while I get pots ready and find the last materials for the mix.
I need to find 10-20 gallons of pumice around soon and wash a cubic foot of coarse perlite and that will be the aeration along with maybe some washed play sand and I gotta scrape up some leaf mold from the local forest. Maybe rice hulls if the local brew place has them for cheap and I can get some malted barley too, I only have powder and I want some coarse grind. That’ll do it, and should get me something like ten cubic feet of potting mix to play with this summer along with the raised beds and the nice black milled mulch I’ve been getting from the local trash place for $20/yard, hauling back half a yard at a time on my bike trailer in roller bins and Rubbermaid totes. It’s gonna be a great summer here, and I wish you the best of luck in your garden too!
