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Everything You Want to Know About Soil Blocks | Mindful Farmer, Sean Pessarra
Bootstrap Farmer Radio
English - September 13, 2023 11:00 - 49 minutes - 70.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 33 ratingsBusiness Arts Food farm aquaponics business farming greenhouse hydroponics marketing microgreens urbanfarm verticalfarm Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Mindful Garden's Sean Pessarra has made hundreds of thousands if not a million soil blocks over his farming career. He is also the inventor of the Mindful Gardener Soil Block Drop Seeder.
In this interview, Sean discusses the how-to's, whats, and whys of Soil Blocking for seed starting.
TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
00:38 What is soil blocking
01:23 What makes up the soil mix
03:31 How to choose soil mix
07:07 Why you should limit liquid feeds
08:00 How long till the plant receive the benefits from the nutrients in the block
10:00 When to fertilize soil block
11:00 How far in advance can you make soil blocks
14:11 Adding water for soil block mix
16:15 What is the soil block
19:24 Air pruning in soil block
23:02 Advantage of early season soil blocking
27:30 Soil block dibbler sizes
28:50 Garden planning with blocks
30:45 Are soil blocks fragile
31:20 Which size soil block maker should I get
33:20 Which trays to use for soil blocks
34:10 Drop seeder
37:50 Best practices to water soil blocks
43:30 Key components to farming
47:05 Wrap up
49:00 Bloopers
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