That's $128 for a 12 cuft mixture and doesn't include the soil. I'm sure you could grow the best herb around with it, but just seems like so much. Especially for an outdoor grow, indoors is probably a different story but I've never grown organic indoors so I can't say.
Last season I used a similar mix, but instead of buying bags of soil I made my own, plus added lots of kelp in the last two months (mid Aug- Oct.). But I used the amounts in this recipe spread out over 100 cuft, instead of 12. I picked up some garden soil from the landscape place (I just talked to them and asked for the best organic soil that won't burn) bought a yard of that, bought a half yard of compost, used my own compost and worm casting, added some perlite (the biggest chunks available), peat moss (will use coco this year, better for enviro and won't jack my ph as much) and mixed it up with some leftover dirt from my garden. Let it sit, like Sub Cool says to do and then planted my month old plants from 1 gallon pots into the mix, in raised beds. Gave them compost teas every other watering throughout their life in the beds (may-oct). The yeild and quality was great, and for way less. Maybe I'm missing out by not paying 3 or 4 times more, I don't think my quality could be 3-4 times better, maybe 10% better but that wasn't from using less nutes :)
I'm having fun learning about organics, composting, raising worms, digging holes...its one of the best things I've stumbled on in life. I can't wait to learn more and looking forward to next season and becoming a better gardener.
Note: the soil and compost I bought from the landscape place was whole sale. They dump it in your truck bed. You save per cuft quite a bit.
Edit: I did do some nutrient teas about every other week or three weeks. Not compost teas, but nutrient tea. Bit still, I was using a handful of nutes instead of pounds.
