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What the protocols actually ask you to use.
200-micron strainer bags
For bucket extracts.
Use, soil benefits and cautions
200-micron strainer bags is for bucket extracts. This is the role it plays in the Cure Soil approach. The reason to use it is the job described here, not the idea that adding more of everything makes soil healthier.
Use it when the matching protocol identifies that job and the linked protocol explains the conditions. If a soil report applies, use its findings to decide whether this belongs on your site at all. If you do not have the relevant reading yet, ask Cure Soil to set the rate instead of guessing. Where a label applies, follow that label.
Do not use it simply because another garden needed it. Too much of an input can crowd out another nutrient, stress the soil's living community, or hide a water problem. For living products and extracts, also keep oxidizers such as bleach and chlorine away: they kill the organisms you meant to bring into the soil. Check the warnings in the matching protocol before combining anything.
To tell whether it helped, note the reason you chose it, then compare the same bed and the same relevant report measure next round. Look for the expected change in the roots, soil or measured shortage rather than declaring success from a single greener leaf. If the signal did not move, pause and reassess before repeating the application.
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Used in: Making extracts I: the bucket method
Sticky cards
Fungus gnats carry spores.
Use, soil benefits and cautions
Sticky cards is fungus gnats carry spores. This is the role it plays in the Cure Soil approach. The reason to use it is the job described here, not the idea that adding more of everything makes soil healthier.
Use it when the matching protocol identifies that job and the linked protocol explains the conditions. If a soil report applies, use its findings to decide whether this belongs on your site at all. If you do not have the relevant reading yet, ask Cure Soil to set the rate instead of guessing. Where a label applies, follow that label.
Do not use it simply because another garden needed it. Too much of an input can crowd out another nutrient, stress the soil's living community, or hide a water problem. For living products and extracts, also keep oxidizers such as bleach and chlorine away: they kill the organisms you meant to bring into the soil. Check the warnings in the matching protocol before combining anything.
To tell whether it helped, note the reason you chose it, then compare the same bed and the same relevant report measure next round. Look for the expected change in the roots, soil or measured shortage rather than declaring success from a single greener leaf. If the signal did not move, pause and reassess before repeating the application.
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Used in: Plant health: root rot and wilt
Soil thermometer
Root zone 65–72°F.
Use, soil benefits and cautions
Soil thermometer is root zone 65–72°F. This is the role it plays in the Cure Soil approach. The reason to use it is the job described here, not the idea that adding more of everything makes soil healthier.
Use it when the matching protocol identifies that job and the linked protocol explains the conditions. If a soil report applies, use its findings to decide whether this belongs on your site at all. If you do not have the relevant reading yet, ask Cure Soil to set the rate instead of guessing. Where a label applies, follow that label.
Do not use it simply because another garden needed it. Too much of an input can crowd out another nutrient, stress the soil's living community, or hide a water problem. For living products and extracts, also keep oxidizers such as bleach and chlorine away: they kill the organisms you meant to bring into the soil. Check the warnings in the matching protocol before combining anything.
To tell whether it helped, note the reason you chose it, then compare the same bed and the same relevant report measure next round. Look for the expected change in the roots, soil or measured shortage rather than declaring success from a single greener leaf. If the signal did not move, pause and reassess before repeating the application.
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Used in: Plant health: root rot and wilt
Chlorine test kit
Free chlorine = 0 before biology.
Use, soil benefits and cautions
Chlorine test kit is free chlorine = 0 before biology. This is the role it plays in the Cure Soil approach. The reason to use it is the job described here, not the idea that adding more of everything makes soil healthier.
Use it when the matching protocol identifies that job and the linked protocol explains the conditions. If a soil report applies, use its findings to decide whether this belongs on your site at all. If you do not have the relevant reading yet, ask Cure Soil to set the rate instead of guessing. Where a label applies, follow that label.
Do not use it simply because another garden needed it. Too much of an input can crowd out another nutrient, stress the soil's living community, or hide a water problem. For living products and extracts, also keep oxidizers such as bleach and chlorine away: they kill the organisms you meant to bring into the soil. Check the warnings in the matching protocol before combining anything.
To tell whether it helped, note the reason you chose it, then compare the same bed and the same relevant report measure next round. Look for the expected change in the roots, soil or measured shortage rather than declaring success from a single greener leaf. If the signal did not move, pause and reassess before repeating the application.
Price coming — ask us
Used in: Making extracts I: the bucket method · Water: read it, credit it, condition it
70% isopropyl
On tools between plants.
Use, soil benefits and cautions
70% isopropyl is on tools between plants. This is the role it plays in the Cure Soil approach. The reason to use it is the job described here, not the idea that adding more of everything makes soil healthier.
Use it when the matching protocol identifies that job and the linked protocol explains the conditions. If a soil report applies, use its findings to decide whether this belongs on your site at all. If you do not have the relevant reading yet, ask Cure Soil to set the rate instead of guessing. Where a label applies, follow that label.
Do not use it simply because another garden needed it. Too much of an input can crowd out another nutrient, stress the soil's living community, or hide a water problem. For living products and extracts, also keep oxidizers such as bleach and chlorine away: they kill the organisms you meant to bring into the soil. Check the warnings in the matching protocol before combining anything.
To tell whether it helped, note the reason you chose it, then compare the same bed and the same relevant report measure next round. Look for the expected change in the roots, soil or measured shortage rather than declaring success from a single greener leaf. If the signal did not move, pause and reassess before repeating the application.
Price coming — ask us
Used in: Plant health: root rot and wilt

Brix refractometer
A fast field read (Reams / Andersen). RBTI is unproven.
Use, soil benefits and cautions
Brix refractometer is a fast field read (Reams / Andersen). RBTI is unproven. This is the role it plays in the Cure Soil approach. The reason to use it is the job described here, not the idea that adding more of everything makes soil healthier.
Use it when the matching protocol identifies that job and the linked protocol explains the conditions. If a soil report applies, use its findings to decide whether this belongs on your site at all. If you do not have the relevant reading yet, ask Cure Soil to set the rate instead of guessing. Where a label applies, follow that label.
Do not use it simply because another garden needed it. Too much of an input can crowd out another nutrient, stress the soil's living community, or hide a water problem. For living products and extracts, also keep oxidizers such as bleach and chlorine away: they kill the organisms you meant to bring into the soil. Check the warnings in the matching protocol before combining anything.
To tell whether it helped, note the reason you chose it, then compare the same bed and the same relevant report measure next round. Look for the expected change in the roots, soil or measured shortage rather than declaring success from a single greener leaf. If the signal did not move, pause and reassess before repeating the application.
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Used in: Fertilizing by your soil test
Hand lens / starter microscope
Meet the crew yourself.
Use, soil benefits and cautions
Hand lens / starter microscope is meet the crew yourself. This is the role it plays in the Cure Soil approach. The reason to use it is the job described here, not the idea that adding more of everything makes soil healthier.
Use it when the matching protocol identifies that job and the linked protocol explains the conditions. If a soil report applies, use its findings to decide whether this belongs on your site at all. If you do not have the relevant reading yet, ask Cure Soil to set the rate instead of guessing. Where a label applies, follow that label.
Do not use it simply because another garden needed it. Too much of an input can crowd out another nutrient, stress the soil's living community, or hide a water problem. For living products and extracts, also keep oxidizers such as bleach and chlorine away: they kill the organisms you meant to bring into the soil. Check the warnings in the matching protocol before combining anything.
To tell whether it helped, note the reason you chose it, then compare the same bed and the same relevant report measure next round. Look for the expected change in the roots, soil or measured shortage rather than declaring success from a single greener leaf. If the signal did not move, pause and reassess before repeating the application.
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Used in: Compost application
Garden fork, lifetime warranty
Open the bed without turning it over.
Use, soil benefits and cautions
Garden fork, lifetime warranty is open the bed without turning it over. This is the role it plays in the Cure Soil approach. The reason to use it is the job described here, not the idea that adding more of everything makes soil healthier.
Use it when the matching protocol identifies that job and the linked protocol explains the conditions. If a soil report applies, use its findings to decide whether this belongs on your site at all. If you do not have the relevant reading yet, ask Cure Soil to set the rate instead of guessing. Where a label applies, follow that label.
Do not use it simply because another garden needed it. Too much of an input can crowd out another nutrient, stress the soil's living community, or hide a water problem. For living products and extracts, also keep oxidizers such as bleach and chlorine away: they kill the organisms you meant to bring into the soil. Check the warnings in the matching protocol before combining anything.
To tell whether it helped, note the reason you chose it, then compare the same bed and the same relevant report measure next round. Look for the expected change in the roots, soil or measured shortage rather than declaring success from a single greener leaf. If the signal did not move, pause and reassess before repeating the application.
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Used in: Put your garden to bed
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