Everything You Want to Know About Soil Blocks | Mindful Farmer, Sean Pessarra

Bootstrap Farmer Radio

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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