There is a lot of debate and researches on deciding what is the best ingredients for
making the best potting mix or soil mix for gardening.
We shall discuss this shortly, and at the end of the video, will show you A Special
Formula For making Seed Starting Mix.
Stay tuned..
You need Different Soil Mixtures For Different Situations,
And this Depends on certain factors like: 1.
What you want to grow, that is The Type of Plant: For example, certain plants require
a different level of soil pH from that preferred by other plants (like for example, blueberries
need an acidic soil mix).
2.
Secondly, depending on your local climate, you may need to prepare a different type of
soil.
3.
You cannot expect to have healthy high yielding plants from a poorly prepared soil.
Specially in Kitchen Gardening, Preparing a healthy soil is very important for great
results.
There are many such successful formulae for Vegetable Gardening is :
1/3 fine Sand or peat moss (or cocopeat) + 1/3 Nice Garden Soil + 1/3 blended compost
Basically you need a well draining and nutrient rich soil.
Compost can be vermicompost or even decomposed cowdung or horse dung powder.
One more point here is: All these ingredients have to be thoroughly mixed and not just layered
on to one another.
Another Formula is Mel�s Mix : 1/3 coarse vermiculite ( or perlite), 1/3 peat moss,
and 1/3 blended compost.
Rule of Thumb for Garden Soil: �One should always be able to sink their forefinger all
the way to the knuckle into their garden soil�.
Meaning the soil should be a very well draining soil.
Soil Amendments: (further additions and changes) The above mixes recommended by the experts
are said to contain the basic �building blocks� of a good soil mixture.
There are certainly a number of other popular soil amendments that could be added to your
mix, depending on your needs.
So, the other possible amendments can be like adding:
� Fine sand , Perlite, soybean meal, wood ash, Epsom salt , blood meal, bone meal, seaweed
extract, shredded bark, wood chips and sawdust.
� And Also One more useful ingredient you can always use is Coconut Husk.
Coco husk block is available online as a compressed brick or block of 1 kilogram or even upto
5 kilograms.
If you have any of the above ingredients then of course you should think about adding them!
A Special Soil Mixture Formula For Starting Seeds
If you are performing direct sowing of seeds, you might want to consider topping your soil
mix with something more suitable for sprouting seeds.
Such a medium should have a fine texture quality than your regular soil mix and it has to be
moist and spongy � meaning loose and highly drainable.
A perfect recipe would be Mel�s Mix without the compost (just the vermiculite and the
peat moss), an inch or so deep, on top of your raised bed.
Once your seedlings are up, you could then layer some compost on top of your bed.
Another mix is one part fine sand and one part of cocopeat or peat moss.
This is what is use for most of my seed germinations in seedling trays or small containers and
then shift the seedling after 2 � 3 weeks into larger containers.
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