How to Make Amazing Potting Mix with Cheap Ingredients

Описание: The cost of potting soil mix shouldn’t be a barrier to gardening. Let me show you how to mix up some super affordable potting mix so you can get back to planting.

Instructions:
The base of our mix consists of four primary ingredients: 1 part (25%) aged & cured steer manure, 1 part (25%) of the cheapest Raised Bed Mix, 1 part (25%) Top Soil, and 1 part (25%) sphagnum peat moss

Steer manure provides organic material, water retention, structure, and very mild fertilizer to our otherwise mostly inert mix. We use a potting mix made with a base of wood and forest products to add some larger particulates. It’s also got some small amounts of fertilizer.

Perlite is the more common choice for drainage but it’s $17 a bag right now so this is helping to fill that gap.

Cheap top soil helps bulk out our mix. You’ll notice it says on the bag not to use it in containers and the company’s reps do say online that it's too dense for container gardening. Good thing we’re not using it on its own.

Sphagnum peat moss is really the key ingredient. White it has a tiny particle size it actually adds a lot of fluffiness to the mix and critically provides structure and aeration and water retention.


I recommend combining the sphagnum peat moss and the raised bed mix first as they can be a little more difficult to wet out and incorporate.

The final mixture has a surprisingly light and fluffy texture.

With this mix, you will need to very regularly top dress with compost and worm castings or add some store bought fertilizers.
A layer of mulch is really important because it creates a barrier preventing water pressure from compacting the soil and helps slow evaporation so that you don’t have to water as often.


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