This genuine Ladbrooke "Mini 5" soil blocker is great for mid-summer starts and for small and quick germinating seeds. The hand-held soil block maker makes five 1-3/8"x1-3/8"x1-3/8" soil blocks, each with a seed dimple pre-formed in the top. The Mini 5 comes with a set of five 5/8" seed pins, which must be inserted.

Soil Blockers are an innovative and simple solution to seed sowing. The Soil Blocker creates individual blocks of soil with indentations for each seed, eliminating pricking out and providing a high rate of germination and easy blooming. Made of robust zinc-plated steel construction, Soil Blockers are one of the most efficient gardening tools available, inexpensive and maintenance free! You can help reduce our global waste by using organic gardening tools such as the Soil Blocker.

• Ladbrooke Mini 5 soil blockers are made from zinc coated steel that will last for years.
• It is part of the unique Ladbrooke Micro 20/Mini 4/Maxi "nesting" system for starting seeds and transplanting starts. 
• Soil blockers are fun and easy to use, and offer an excellent growing medium. Potting soil is compressed wet into the soil block mold and then discharged into a tray with the ejection handle. Very simple to use and handle. Soil blockers make a "pot-less" pot, and can be used for all seeds, and are great to use for cuttings as well. With soil blocks, roots are air-pruned and transplant shock, stunting, slow-growth is greatly reduced.
• Help reduce global waste. Soil blocking offers an eco-friendly system that eliminates the need for using plastic seed starting trays, and buying, storing and sanitizing plastic pots.
• Made by Ladbrooke, of England, makers of the highest quality products! 
• These are utilitarian, hand-made gardening tools. Cosmetic blemishes and water bathing marks made during manufacturing are natural, and in no way alter the functionality of the tool.

ORGANIC SOIL BLOCKING RECIPE

It is best to wet your mix some hours before you make blocks to improve penetration of water into the planting medium.

• 3.5 Parts Organic Compost, free of weed seeds and disease.
• 2 Parts each Peat Moss, Coco Coir, and Small Pumice / Perlite
• .5 Parts Worm Castings
• 1 cup each of Feather Meal (nitrogen), Rock Phosphate (phosphorus), and Greensand (potassium).*  These amounts are based on each ‘1 Part’ above equaling an ‘8 Qt. bucket’, or 10 buckets total of bulk soil materials. Adjust nutrients according to the total quantity being made.       

* Nitrogen helps plant foliage grow strong. Phosphorous helps roots,  flowers, and fruit develop. Potassium is important for overall plant health.