Little House Vlog -- Spring Comes Inside the Little House

We're back!!!! Today we're doing seeds in soil blocks, Nick is working on a slab bench for the mudroom, and Sadie provides the entertainment all day long.
Enjoy!
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We are new this year to using soil blockers, but Eliot Coleman's recipe for soil block mix worked well for us, so here it is!
Eliot Coleman's recipe was for a full bushel of mix. We have a half bushel sized tub so we adjusted it to what is shown below. This amount filled six and a half trays of blocks.
15 quarts screened peat
1/4 cup lime
(mix)
10 quarts perlite
1 and 1/2 cups fertilizer (ours was 3-3-3)
(mix)
5 quarts topsoil
10 quarts screened compost
mix and add water
let sit for several hours
adjust water until a very small amount of water drips out when you squeeze firmly
(if you're Sadie, make mud balls and take a bath!)
We did one tray of onions (about 200 seeds), 2 trays of tomatoes, 1 tray of ground cherries, 1 tray of peppers, 1/2 tray each of lettuce and parsley and 1/2 tray each of broccoli, eggplant, and Sadie's watermelon. But we intend to keep going until our rack is full!
the Eliot Coleman book we showed is this one (affiliate link): amzn.to/2p5o8DW
the Eliot Coleman book with the recipe in it is this one (affiliate link): amzn.to/2p6SRAs
The soil blockers we have are this one (mini): amzn.to/2DiQbF2
and this one (micro): amzn.to/2FuIl1a
But we bought them together here: amzn.to/2FuIu4I