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The micro-nutrients are pre-packaged, so the only other things you have to buy are Epsom Salts at your pharmacy and a bag of 16-16-16 or similar N,P,K blend at your garden shop or nursery. Then mix according to the simple instructions, and you have a good Weekly Feed mix! And for a simple Pre-Plant mix, just add proper amounts of lime or gypsum, Epsom Salts, and 20 Mule Team Borax in a ratio of 80-4-1 (see Fertilizing in the Learn section).
Mix one 8.5 oz. package of Micro-Nutrients with 3 lbs. of Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate) and 20 lbs. of 16-8-16, 20-10-20, or even 16-16-16 to make your own Weekly-Feed.
Do you live outside of Utah and Idaho? Most people do, and shipping is expensive! The Micro-Mix is a good solution that will let you make your own Weekly Feed Mix easily and inexpensively, without the hassle of buying all 13 ingredients!
Weekly Feed - 20# Bags Pre-Plant Mix - 20# Bags
All plants need 16 nutrients. Nature provides 3 (oxygen, hydrogen & carbon), and Mittleider Magic provides the other 13! The macro-nutrients nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, are in the 2-1-2 ratio that the horticultural industry favors, but for some reason is difficult to find in the garden shops, and all 13 nutrients are scientifically balanced to give your plants just the right amounts of each.
For large garden projects you'll probably want to save money by mixing your own materials from the formulas given in the Learn section of this website and in the Mittleider gardening books.
However, a typical-sized family garden of 10 beds (30' X 50') can be fed for an entire growing season with one - 20# bag of Pre-Plant Mix and two or three 20# bags of Weekly Feed Mix.
Do you live in Utah or Idaho? Fertilizer can be picked up at the following locations:
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It's Fall and time to prepare your soil for winter! For those of you in the Northern hemisphere who have winters, October, November, and and early December are the time you need to be cleaning up your garden and preparing it for next spring's planting. You can even plant hardy garlic, which will overvegetable crops such as radishes, peas, cabbage and broccoli.
The freeze/tha-winter and get an early spring start. Before snow covers your garden mae sure all old materials are either removed from the garden, or if they are clean of weed seeds and disease, till them into your soil-beds. Also, when it's not too muddy, go in and give everything a good weeding with the 2-way hoe (see Tools). Weeding thoroughly in the Fall helps keep the weeds from getting a big head start on you before you can get into the garden in the spring, and is very important.
If you grew a Mittleider garden this year, your beds will benefit from tilling or digging. You can apply Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed to the bed area now, then till them in, or wait until early spring. Either way after tilling place strings on your stakes, and re-make the beds.
Be sure to re-check the level of each bed accurately, since they may have changed a little. Do not be satisfied with anything more than 1" fall in a 30'-long soil-bed. Good Gardening!
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