Make Your Own Potting Soil and Save Huge! Potting or container soil is one of the largest expenses of having your own backyard garden. Although it is readily available at most garden centers and home improvement stores, what you find there is often overpriced, and most certainly underwhelming.
In this video I show you how to make your own organic potting mix right at home, for the fraction of the cost it would be to buy a mixture that is no where near as good. The mix can be used for pots, containers, small raised beds, and even as a seedling mix!
Learn how easy it is to make the base mixture, and then move on to the misunderstood world of amendments as we take the mixture to the next level.
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If you're just starting out gardening in 2020, this inexpensive set of tools from Amazon can get you and your garden up and running this spring! I know there is a fevered and renewed interest in gardening and many of you are seasoned vets. But remember that there's a whole population out there that hasn't gardened before. Let's help them out and encourage as much as possible! Affiliate links below:
Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/2xXLfbG
Amazon Canada: https://amzn.to/3aoN1AN
Amazon U.K.: https://amzn.to/2XrQA5A
The 10×20 nursery trays are a gardener's NECESSITY. Use the Amazon Afilliate links below to find the right ones!
Amazon USA: https://amzn.to/2JFB4uM
Amazon Canada: https://amzn.to/2wQCeBd
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could we just use the coco fibre and compose?
HOw much of each amendment do you use?
Question for The Ripe Tomato Farms – Given all the compost and other nutrients in the mix, is there a need to fertilize at all before indoor seedlings are planted outside? Generally, how long will the nutrition last in the mix before additional liquid fertilizations needs to be applied?
Great video, but im going to be honest here. I found it hard to listen to the tone of your voice the way you start and end a sentence…. I know I'm weird lol
You don't think that coco coir will stunt your seedlings' growth?
Hello! I FINALLY have all your ingredients! I have Kelp Meal instead of Canola Meal, and AZOMITE instead of Rock Dust. I blended my Alfalfa pellets into Meal. My question is: If I’m using Miracle Grow Moisture Control Potting Soil, and Peat Moss, do I really need to add the Dolomite and Sulfur to the mix for PH control? I have them, but need to confirm if I really need them in my potting
I have no idea where to even buy all those extra ingredients.
I've never seen them at our stores
Can I use plain soil? Like the ones from Home Depot?
I am new to your channel and love all the info, however, I am a little confused. I have some of the amendments, can I use all that I have using 50% compost/peat and 10% amendments with my existing plants that are in flower boxes/vegetables in garden/herb cuttings directly around the plants or am I too late in the game? Also, are there amendments or formula's that I should stay away from/use for different vegetables/herbs/flowers or is it one size fits all kind of thing?
hiii jeff! i noticed you didn't use perlite in your mix. do you find that its sufficient for drainage? doesn't coco coir hold lots of water?
I feel like we're always being sold vermiculite and/or perlite into our potting mixes and I worry that without it, my plants won't do well but I noticed your veggies are growing great.
so maybe it's not necessary after all..
The upward inflection at the end of every sentence is enraging. Stop it.
Is this 50/50 combo only for starting plants or can it be used in containers for the duration of the plants life.
Oh boy getting those amendments individually,
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Thanks for the video. Just way I was looking for.
How do I make compost?
Hi Ripe Tomato Farms, I practice veganic gardening and was wondering if there is an organic non-animal source for calcium that can replace the oyster flakes. Thanks!
thanks for sharing
Man, you gonna have to up that price for those plant starts if you put all those amendments.
I read through many of the comments, but didn't find an answer (and I know there have been a ton of questions about compost lol)…My question is, can I just use composted sheep/cow manure (for the compost part)? Thanks! (New subscriber here!)
Any Canola (Rape Seed) Meal Substitutes? I don't want canola in my soil. Thank you for any recommendations.
Thanks for sharing. More power to you!
Thank you!
What’s a good organic compost to get If you don’t have any yourself?
Could you please help out. You used the term potting mix and potting soil, which are different. Could you please tell me which one. And what size bag of mix is it 5, 10 or 20 lbs? And you used 1 brick of coconut fiber at 5Kg for 11lbs. So are you saying to use 11lbs (or 5Kg) of potting mix or soil if it’s a 50/50 ratio? And when mixing the “Amendments” (8 total) are those a cup each for balanced ratio? I really want to get this right and grow come garlic for my Mother she loves it so. Could you please help and give me the exact amounts. Thank you.
Doesn’t compost have bugs especially fungus gnats?