The last five years of soil block recipe experiments have been a wild ride—researching, trying different products: it’s kept me busy (and dirty)! The answer came when I sheared my sheep last spring—I didn’t know what to do with the discards from the wool shearing (wool sheep HAVE to be sheared or else they can overheat and die), until someone wrote to me about wool pellets. Once I experimented mixing them up with peat-free potting soil and starting seeds in it, I was HOOKED. The wool has slow re