Black Swallow / KIS Organics Soil Mix

Tad from KIS Organics has been working with Black Swallow Organics to develop this new soil mix that we wanted to add to our line up. The new KIS mix differs from Black Swallow soil mix in that it was designed to have a greater overall nutritional content. Consequently, this is a great mix for someone who is new to growing in a living soil, who is not yet confident in using the teas, foliars sprays, and microbial innoculants, or even growers who just desire simplicity. With Tad’s guidance, Black Swallow has worked up a mix that will allow any gardener to achieve a successful harvest without the addition of too many other inputs.

This powerhouse of a mix is a blend of sphagnum peat, perlite, fish compost, leaf compost, worm castings, biochar, blood meal, kelp meal, crab meal, feather meal, Dead Soldier fly frass, fish bone meal, gypsum, soft rock phosphate, alfalfa meal, oyster shell flour, Wollastonite rock dust, Volcanophos rock dust, and Huplaso basalt.

This product is sold by the cubic foot, in a bag. It does not come as a 'baled' product like peat moss. This is because a true, living soil has a significant compost content in order to contribute the diverse biology that, by definition, it contains. Consequently, the KIS mix cannot be compressed, but is bagged loose- as opposed to a heavily peated product which does not contain compost of any measurable amount. Compressing and baling a compost mix quickly leads to anaerobic conditions.

1 cu ft (28L) of KIS soil weighs approximately 25 lbs

Ingredients:

Blood meal, kelp meal, crab meal, feather meal, Dead Soldier fly frass, fish bone meal, gypsum, soft rock phosphate, alfalfa meal, oyster shell flour, Wollastonite rock dust, Volcanophos rock dust, and Huplaso basalt.

Soil amending ingredients: sphagnum peat, perlite, fish compost, leaf compost, worm castings, biochar