Posts Tagged ‘Potting Soil’

Open potting soil bags quick and easy


2010
05.30

Keep a plastic knife in your garden tool box.

picnic plastic knives open bags fast

It will open those weighty bags of potting soil or top soil faster than most pricey garden gadgets.
Keep one of these handy.

open plastic bags

A plastic picnic knife makesa great garden tool.

My frugal gardening suggestion is recycle plastic forks, spoons and knives as plant markers and plastic bag openers.

You will probably use plastic flatware at a picnic this summer and most of it will go into the trash.

recycle pastic flatware from picnics and "to go" food.

They aren’t frugal if you buy them especially for this purpose , but if you happen to use plastic ware this summer, recycling for garden use will keep just one more thing out of the landfill.


2008
05.28


A good quality potting soil is not really soil at all, but a mix of several ingredients that may include sphagnum peat moss, vermiculite, sand, perlite, or compost.

Make your own
potting mixes and seed starting mixes if you need a large amount. It may be easier to just buy a bagged mix if you need a small amount.

Seed Starting Mix

Compost and Soil less Mix

2 parts Compost
2 parts Sphagnum Peat Moss
1 part Perlite
1 part Vermiculite


Soilless Potting Mix is a light, weed and disease free combination that is a blend ingredients suitable for starting flowers or vegetable seeds.

Commercial seed starting mixes are predominantly sphagnum peat moss and often contains bark or coconut fiber. Sphagnum peat is lightweight, it will hold moisture but is quick to drain excess water. Peat is also on the acidic side and most seed starting mixes have a soil pH around 5.8, which is good for seed starting.

You do not need to add fertilizer to seed starting mixes. Extra fertilizer may burn new, fragile seedlings. The addition of compost to your mix will provide any extra nutrients that young plants require.

Simple Potting Mix
1 part sphagnum peat or coir
1 part peat humus
1 part compost
1 part sharp sand or builder’s sand

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