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How to Prepare a Soil Mix for Growing Indoors
If you are going to grow seeds & raise cuttings indoors in Pots & Trays you will need to create a suitable growing medium or potting mix in which your seedling & cuttings will grow. Different vegetables, fruits, cuttings, seedlings & shrubs require different soil conditions.
In this video we will give you a quick guide to how to prepare different growing mediums or soil mixes (potting mixes) for different scenarios.
What is worth noting is that different ingredients & different ratios create different soil conditions in regards to
- Soil air content
- Soil drainage
- Soil moisture retention
- Soil nutrients
- Soil pH
- Soil stability
Having the right soil mix along with suitable pot size, capillary matting, pot loctaion, levels of sunlight & temperature as well as a suitable watering & feeding schedule are all important when growing seedlings.
The mixes
Seeds and seedlings
- 2 parts peat compost (potting compost)
- 1 part perlite
Cuttings
- 1 part peat
- 1 part sharp sand (or perlite)
Container grown plants
- 7 parts sterilized loam (Good quality garden soil)
- 3 parts peat
- 2 parts sand or grit
- Fertilizer 93 grams / litre)
- Lime or chalk (0.5 grams / litre)
Alpine mixes
- 9 parts coarse sand
- 5 parts peat
- 4 parts perlite
