KarakteristikaAbout soil blocking. Advertisement images show only nice clean soil blocks. In reality, those who soil block, how long you are able to keep the soil blocks close to original form? I have made these micro sized soil blocks for couple of years now and eventually transferred seedlings to pots. Even these micro sized soil blocks tend to spread in width (maybe I water in wrong way). Now I am trying larger soil blocks, but wonder if I am able to transfer plants directly soil as in these latitudes it might take two more months still.
Pollinators@karakteristika It’s a good question about soil blocks. The ingredients and moisture can be varied to get more robust soil blocks. #SoilBlock, #gardening, #allotment, #compost
Old Hippie Ⓥ Resistance!@Pollinators @karakteristika If I form them with the right amount of moisture, they usually retain their shape all the way through planting.
Broadfork@old_hippie @Pollinators @karakteristika This is my experience with them too. Get the right moisture level at the start and they last pretty well. I also water from below and drain the excess water away.
However, although I have a mini blocker I no longer use it as it’s too fiddly for me to transplant the seedlings into the next size up blocks. Now I just use the 4 blocker. For ‘potting on’ I just bind more of the same soil block mix around the original block.