{"id":10320,"date":"2024-03-14T19:35:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10320"},"modified":"2024-03-14T19:35:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T23:35:20","slug":"where-oh-where-did-the-promix-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/03\/14\/where-oh-where-did-the-promix-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where oh where did the ProMix go?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve used ProMix potting soil for years now to start and transplant my seeds and seedlings. I was getting a little low on stockpiled soil, so I went to Menards to buy some more. No luck. The guy said they had discontinued it! Then I checked at several other stores, and they had none and weren’t planning on getting any. Oh oh! I even checked online. Some places had it listed but did not have it “in stock.” (Except one cheap place that I think was a scam; offered free shipping.) Luckily, my friends at the Watering Can, in Cook, Minnesota, bought theirs in the fall of last year and had a truck load (as in semi-truck). I bought six bags and sure hope they can get it again in the fall this year! No, MiracleGro doesn’t work. It’s full of fungus gnats and the plants do terrible in it. It might be okay for larger, more mature plants, but not for seed starting. Nor is Jiffy Mix Seed Starter. That darned stuff won’t absorb water, as it’s so dry. I mean it takes hours<\/em>! Here’s hoping the ProMix drought is a local thing, and it is resolved by next year!<\/p>\n

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I was so happy to find some ProMix. After all, pretty soon, it’ll be time to start tomato seeds!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We ran out of one of my favorite pepper’s seeds, Oda. It seems the girls packed up all the seeds we had, and we sold them. Oh oh! As this wonderful purple pepper is so rare, I had a devil of a time finding any more seeds, even online. (One site showed a four-lobed lavender pepper, where Oda is a thick, wedge-shaped pepper.) Finally, I found seeds and today, I planted two dozen, and they are now waiting behind the wood stove to germinate.<\/p>\n

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hese are our Oda peppers from a better year. Not only are they gorgeous but tasty, too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I hope to have nice Oda transplants this spring, in their nice ProMix beds. Thankfully, I did find some of both!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve used ProMix potting soil for years now to start and transplant my seeds and seedlings. I was getting a little low on stockpiled soil, so I went to Menards to buy some more. No luck. The guy said they had discontinued it! Then I checked at several other stores, and they had none and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10324,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions\/10324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}