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--- garden:intro:soil:pseudosoil [2025/07/18 01:21] – davidbac
+++ garden:intro:soil:pseudosoil [2025/07/22 19:03] (current) – davidbac
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 ==== Seed starting mix ====
-"Soil-less" light-weight growing medium that excludes these:
+Seed starting mix is a "soil-less," light-weight growing medium that does not contain:
-  * Fertilizer which may cause burning or "???" stunting of seeds
+  * Fertilizer which may cause burning or stunting of seeds
   * Clay which can hold too much moisture
-  * Organic elements, which can separate sees from the medium
+  * Organic elements, which can separate seeds from the medium
   * Fungi or bacteria, which may kill or stunt seedling
 ==== Potting soil ====
-Used to provide nourishment for growing seedlings once they are ready for the real world. Potting soil contains some earth soil, as well as compost or manure peat moss or vermiculite.
+Potting soil is a heavier mix than seed starting mix. It Used to provide nourishment for growing seedlings once they are ready for the real world. It contains some earth soil, as well as compost or manure, peat moss or vermiculite.
-==== Three-way topsoil ====
+==== Soil conditioner ====
-This is a commercial name for an indeterminate mix of earth soil (maybe), sand, compost (maybe), shredded forest products, bark and who knows what else. There is no standard. What one company sells by this name may look and be quite different from that sold by another company.
+A type of soil amendment that typically contains some fertilizer, nutrients, compostable material or non-oganic elements.
+A soil conditioned can help improve soil structure by increasing aeration, water holding capacity and nutrients. These can help break up compacted clay soils.
-I have been buying this from a local supplier for leveling, starting turf and filling holes to replace the native soil. I can tell it has some earth soil, some sand and some shredded forest products. I mix it with Tagro from the City of Tacoma's municipal waste department.
 ==== TAGRO products ====
 Tagro ([[https://tagro.com/products-pricing/]]) products created and marketed by the City of Tacoma. TAGRO products are made from a blend of pasteurized wastewater byproducts called biosolids and other weed-free gardening components.
+<note tip>Biosolids improve all aspects of soil structure and add plant nutrients)</note>
 For detail about TAGRO Potting Sil and Topsoil see [[https://tagro.com/products-pricing/]].
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 We have used TAGRO Mix with flower beds, container and raised bed. Plants grow quickly and boldly.
-=== Starting seeds ===