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BuildASoil Take 'N Bake - Artisan Soil Building Kit - Take N' Bake is backordered and will ship as soon as it is back in stock.
Soil building kit
Every ingredient for about 9 cubic feet of BuildASoil living soil, bagged, labeled, and shipped to your door with a 100 gallon pot to mix it in. You open every bag, break up every clod, and make it fresh, the way you would cook a meal from scratch instead of heating one up.
Why build it yourself
There is a difference between soil you bought and soil you made. Growers who build their first batch tend to say the same thing afterward: they understand their soil now, and they grow differently because of it.
How we make soil
When we make soil here, it comes from bulk. Raw materials by the yard, weighed out, run through a mixer, and bagged. It is consistent and it is good, and it is how we keep 3.0 affordable.
How this kit gets made
Every ingredient in this kit is bagged, labeled, and packed by hand so you can do what our mixer does, yourself. You will smell the compost, feel the pumice, and crumble every clod of BuildAFlower between your fingers. It all shows up at your door. The only work left is the part worth doing.
From the box to your first plant
About two weeks, start to finish
One afternoon of mixing, a week or two of waiting, and a soil you can reuse for years.
One afternoon
Mix
Everything goes into the 100 gallon pot. Wet the peat, break up the compost by hand, and turn it until it is even.
1 to 2 weeks
Cook
Keep it moist and covered. The Kashi Gold gets the biology working and the mix settles into soil.
When it has cooked
Plant
Plant, mulch the surface, and top dress the mulch with the rest of your Kashi Gold.
Every run after
Keep it
Between runs you reamend it instead of throwing it out. This is soil you build once.
One bag of Kashi Gold, two jobs: half goes into the mix to get the cook going, and the other half is saved for top dressing your mulch while you grow.
What is in the box
This is what each item costs on its own. In the kit, it all ships to your door for free.
| Item | Amount | What it does | Retail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grassroots Living Soil Pot | 100 gallon | Mix in it, cook in it, then grow in it or move the soil to your beds and pots | $39 |
| Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss | 4 cu ft | The base. Holds water and nutrients | $152 |
| BuildAFlower | 2 cu ft | Compost and BuildASoil worm castings, plus kelp, rice bran, mustard seed meal, gypsum, and charged biochar | $142 |
| Pumice, 3/8 by 1/4 inch | 2 cu ft | Air and drainage that holds its shape run after run | $104 |
| Par Boiled Rice Hulls | 1 cu ft | Lightweight aeration in place of perlite | $25 |
| BuildASoil Charged Bio-Char | 2 gallon | Pre-soaked in soy aminos and Rootwise Mycrobe Complete, gives biology somewhere to live | $27 |
| Nutrient Kit, ClackamasCoots Style | 8 lb | The food, sized for 9 cubic feet | $53 |
| Mineral Kit for Peatmoss | 27 lb | Basalt, gypsum, and oyster shell flour to balance the peat and add calcium and trace minerals | $51 |
| BuildASoil Kashi Gold | 2 lb | Half in the mix to start the cook, half saved for top dressing your mulch | $30 |
| Quillaja Extract Powder 20 | 2 oz | Natural wetting agent, makes wetting the peat much easier | $20 |
How to build it
Four bulk ingredients by volume, then the nutrients, minerals, and Kashi Gold worked through by hand.
4
cu ft peat moss
2
cu ft BuildAFlower
2
cu ft pumice
1
cu ft rice hulls
Set up the pot where the soil can cook. The 100 gallon pot is your mixing tub, so no tarp needed. Set it where the soil can sit, cook, and come together for the next 1 to 2 weeks.
Wet the peat first. Break up all four bags of peat in the pot. Mix 1/8 to 1/2 teaspoon of Quillaja per gallon of water and work it in until the peat takes water instead of shedding it.
Add the bulk ingredients. Pour in the BuildAFlower, pumice, rice hulls, and charged biochar, crumbling every clod of BuildAFlower between your fingers as it goes in. Order does not matter. Turn it over until you cannot see layers.
Add the Nutrient Kit, Mineral Kit, and 1 lb of Kashi Gold. Sprinkle them across the surface a little at a time and mix as you go so they spread evenly through the whole batch. Seal the other pound of Kashi Gold and set it aside.
Moisten and cover. Bring it to the feel of a wrung out sponge, cover it, and let it cook for 1 to 2 weeks. Check it now and then and keep it from drying out.
Plant, mulch, and top dress. Plant into your finished soil and mulch the surface. Sprinkle the saved Kashi Gold over the mulch at 2 to 4 tablespoons per square foot and water it in lightly.
Store your saved Kashi Gold sealed, cool, and dry, somewhere animals cannot get to it. Dogs, chickens, and mice will find an open bag and eat the whole thing.
Three ways to get BuildASoil living soil
Ready to plant
Potting Soil 3.0
Mixed, cooked, and batch tested by us. Open the bag and plant. Nine 1 cubic foot bags makes the same amount of soil as this kit.
Build it by hand
Take 'N Bake
Every ingredient shipped to your door with the pot to mix it in. You make it fresh, and you learn how soil works by doing it.
You are here
Bring your own bulk
Complete Soil Building Kit
The Nutrient Kit and Mineral Kit together. You source the peat, compost, and aeration near you, and we ship the part that is hard to get right.
Questions
About 9 cubic feet, roughly 67 gallons. That is enough to fill four 15 gallon pots with a little left over, or about two thirds of the 100 gallon pot it comes with.
Give it 1 to 2 weeks to cook, kept moist and covered. Planting into raw, just mixed soil is the most common mistake with a kit like this. Waiting is the easy part.
Split the 2 lb bag. Mix 1 lb into your batch along with the Nutrient Kit and Mineral Kit to get the cook going. Save the other pound for later: once you are growing, sprinkle 2 to 4 tablespoons per square foot over the mulch and water it in lightly.
That is the whole idea. Between runs, reamend it with the Re-amend Old Soil Nutrient Kit and plant again. The pumice holds its structure, so the soil keeps going run after run.
Free shipping to the lower 48 states. For Alaska, Hawaii, and other destinations, see our shipping policy.
Us. Everyone on our team grows. Use the chat on the site or our contact page and we will help you through it.
What runs with it
Questions?
We are here to help and our entire staff knows how to grow. Just reach out via chat, email or even phone. We are passionate about growing and want you to succeed.
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This kit hands down everything you need. I just gave them water for 2 months. Took a sample to harvest fest for there homegrown nug smash off. They pressed my sample right there and checked yield. Got the first place trophy thanks to guys!
I keep coming back because this is a fantastic product.
I have grown for about 3 years. Started a complete novice, ordering seeds from across the world, secret packing, hope they would make it here.
It was ok, but when I took a chance on this soil, my garden was transformed and I had never seen such healthy growth. I'm on my second round with the same soil and 4 girls can hardly fit in a 3X3. The main stalk is almost as thick as a sharpie marker, thicker that a pencil.
This kit will not let you down!
It was a great experience making my own soil
This is what it all about
Soil building kit
Every ingredient for about 9 cubic feet of BuildASoil living soil, bagged, labeled, and shipped to your door with a 100 gallon pot to mix it in. You open every bag, break up every clod, and make it fresh, the way you would cook a meal from scratch instead of heating one up.
Why build it yourself
There is a difference between soil you bought and soil you made. Growers who build their first batch tend to say the same thing afterward: they understand their soil now, and they grow differently because of it.
How we make soil
When we make soil here, it comes from bulk. Raw materials by the yard, weighed out, run through a mixer, and bagged. It is consistent and it is good, and it is how we keep 3.0 affordable.
How this kit gets made
Every ingredient in this kit is bagged, labeled, and packed by hand so you can do what our mixer does, yourself. You will smell the compost, feel the pumice, and crumble every clod of BuildAFlower between your fingers. It all shows up at your door. The only work left is the part worth doing.
From the box to your first plant
About two weeks, start to finish
One afternoon of mixing, a week or two of waiting, and a soil you can reuse for years.
One afternoon
Mix
Everything goes into the 100 gallon pot. Wet the peat, break up the compost by hand, and turn it until it is even.
1 to 2 weeks
Cook
Keep it moist and covered. The Kashi Gold gets the biology working and the mix settles into soil.
When it has cooked
Plant
Plant, mulch the surface, and top dress the mulch with the rest of your Kashi Gold.
Every run after
Keep it
Between runs you reamend it instead of throwing it out. This is soil you build once.
One bag of Kashi Gold, two jobs: half goes into the mix to get the cook going, and the other half is saved for top dressing your mulch while you grow.
What is in the box
This is what each item costs on its own. In the kit, it all ships to your door for free.
| Item | Amount | What it does | Retail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grassroots Living Soil Pot | 100 gallon | Mix in it, cook in it, then grow in it or move the soil to your beds and pots | $39 |
| Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss | 4 cu ft | The base. Holds water and nutrients | $152 |
| BuildAFlower | 2 cu ft | Compost and BuildASoil worm castings, plus kelp, rice bran, mustard seed meal, gypsum, and charged biochar | $142 |
| Pumice, 3/8 by 1/4 inch | 2 cu ft | Air and drainage that holds its shape run after run | $104 |
| Par Boiled Rice Hulls | 1 cu ft | Lightweight aeration in place of perlite | $25 |
| BuildASoil Charged Bio-Char | 2 gallon | Pre-soaked in soy aminos and Rootwise Mycrobe Complete, gives biology somewhere to live | $27 |
| Nutrient Kit, ClackamasCoots Style | 8 lb | The food, sized for 9 cubic feet | $53 |
| Mineral Kit for Peatmoss | 27 lb | Basalt, gypsum, and oyster shell flour to balance the peat and add calcium and trace minerals | $51 |
| BuildASoil Kashi Gold | 2 lb | Half in the mix to start the cook, half saved for top dressing your mulch | $30 |
| Quillaja Extract Powder 20 | 2 oz | Natural wetting agent, makes wetting the peat much easier | $20 |
How to build it
Four bulk ingredients by volume, then the nutrients, minerals, and Kashi Gold worked through by hand.
4
cu ft peat moss
2
cu ft BuildAFlower
2
cu ft pumice
1
cu ft rice hulls
Set up the pot where the soil can cook. The 100 gallon pot is your mixing tub, so no tarp needed. Set it where the soil can sit, cook, and come together for the next 1 to 2 weeks.
Wet the peat first. Break up all four bags of peat in the pot. Mix 1/8 to 1/2 teaspoon of Quillaja per gallon of water and work it in until the peat takes water instead of shedding it.
Add the bulk ingredients. Pour in the BuildAFlower, pumice, rice hulls, and charged biochar, crumbling every clod of BuildAFlower between your fingers as it goes in. Order does not matter. Turn it over until you cannot see layers.
Add the Nutrient Kit, Mineral Kit, and 1 lb of Kashi Gold. Sprinkle them across the surface a little at a time and mix as you go so they spread evenly through the whole batch. Seal the other pound of Kashi Gold and set it aside.
Moisten and cover. Bring it to the feel of a wrung out sponge, cover it, and let it cook for 1 to 2 weeks. Check it now and then and keep it from drying out.
Plant, mulch, and top dress. Plant into your finished soil and mulch the surface. Sprinkle the saved Kashi Gold over the mulch at 2 to 4 tablespoons per square foot and water it in lightly.
Store your saved Kashi Gold sealed, cool, and dry, somewhere animals cannot get to it. Dogs, chickens, and mice will find an open bag and eat the whole thing.
Three ways to get BuildASoil living soil
Ready to plant
Potting Soil 3.0
Mixed, cooked, and batch tested by us. Open the bag and plant. Nine 1 cubic foot bags makes the same amount of soil as this kit.
Build it by hand
Take 'N Bake
Every ingredient shipped to your door with the pot to mix it in. You make it fresh, and you learn how soil works by doing it.
You are here
Bring your own bulk
Complete Soil Building Kit
The Nutrient Kit and Mineral Kit together. You source the peat, compost, and aeration near you, and we ship the part that is hard to get right.
Questions
About 9 cubic feet, roughly 67 gallons. That is enough to fill four 15 gallon pots with a little left over, or about two thirds of the 100 gallon pot it comes with.
Give it 1 to 2 weeks to cook, kept moist and covered. Planting into raw, just mixed soil is the most common mistake with a kit like this. Waiting is the easy part.
Split the 2 lb bag. Mix 1 lb into your batch along with the Nutrient Kit and Mineral Kit to get the cook going. Save the other pound for later: once you are growing, sprinkle 2 to 4 tablespoons per square foot over the mulch and water it in lightly.
That is the whole idea. Between runs, reamend it with the Re-amend Old Soil Nutrient Kit and plant again. The pumice holds its structure, so the soil keeps going run after run.
Free shipping to the lower 48 states. For Alaska, Hawaii, and other destinations, see our shipping policy.
Us. Everyone on our team grows. Use the chat on the site or our contact page and we will help you through it.
What runs with it
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