Now is the time for buying shit to mix up. A few bucks here, there, etc. I can get a pickup truck load of mushroom compost for $20 bucks. I also ordered 2 Lbs. of Red Wiggle Worms last Spring, put them in a 5' diameter plastic Kiddie Pool. The cows come to look for dog food, and make an Ariel drop, to give the worms a shit eating grin. Another Kiddie Pool is for mixing the shit up. I goes something like this.
60% Mushroom Compost. From that point, depends upon how explosive I dare to be. In the Kiddie Pool, a couple bags of good organic compost from the local Nursery, never from a box store. A couple bags of Lady Bug Rejuvenate Potting soil, couple cups of green sand, 2 cup of whole ground corn meal, 1 cup of Epsom Salt, 4 shovels of cow manure infested with worms & 2 bags of perlite, 1 bag of vermiculite. That's the dry mix, now to get it moist. (Rabbit shit is wonderful, if you can find a grower.) Put on the Cajun Music, and make up 2 gals. of molasses, 2 TBS per gal, Liquid Seaweed, 2 gal. mixture, and 2 gals. of fish emulsion. Adjust moisture level with good well water. Use a garden rake, mix until 4 beers is drank, pissing in the soil as you mix your ass off. 2 Oz's. per gal is good. Mix til' you puke, then mix again tomarrow. This shit will spout metal Tee-Post, so,.. don't fall in. This mixture is for the top 40% of the actual soil used. The bottom 60% is straight compost. In the meantime, collect Praying Mantis & light green spiders w/ black strips. They will protect your plants. Lady Bugs is good also. Sheets or cubes of rockwool mixed in would be cool.
With this soil, water/fert once per week with molasses, emulsion (For veg) & seaweed. Also spray plants with seaweed once per week for spider mites. I believe that's about it.