Make Your Own Potting Mixes
You don’t have to spend a fortune purchasing high-quality Commercial Potting Mix, you can easily make your own. In addition, these mixes won’t weight down your pots, choking out the roots of seedlings.
All Purpose Potting Mix
* 8 quarts potting soil with vermiculite or perlite
* 1 quart coarse sand
* 4 quarts sphagnum peat moss, compost, and/or rotted
* manure
Lightweight Potting Mix
* 8 quarts potting soil
* 1 quart perlite
* 1 quart vermiculite
* 8 quarts sphagnum peat moss
* 1 cup greensand
* 1 cup gypsum
Soil-less Potting Mix
* 8 quarts sphagnum peat moss
* 1 quart perlite
* 1 quart vermiculite
How to Sterilize your Homemade Potting Mixes:
Heat the Oven to 250 Degrees, place the soil in a shallow container and bake approx. 20-30 minutes to kill bug eggs, weed seeds, and fungi. (This process also kills healthy bacteria as well!)
