Potting Soil Recipes and Soil Reconditioning

 

Alpine Potting Mix

9 parts coarse sand
5 parts peat
4 part pumice

Pumice is also used as the top dressing and to provide extra bottom drainage. Provide encapsulated slow-release fertilizer with minor trace elements once a year and repot yearly.

Alpine Potting Mix 2

All the plant material coming into the Botanical Garden nursery, whether it is seed, cutting or bare root material, is grown in these mixes and the nursery has a 60-70% success rate of all these plant materials.

4 Bushels of Lakeland coarse peat (to be measured)
4 Bushels of Turface -3 bags
3.3 Bushels of Aqua sand (AE3) -4 bags
2 Bushels of screened pasteurized soil (15%)

Add by weight
Dolomite 65AG;
Micromax
Aqua-Gro `G'
Osmocote 18-6-12
 390 gms
   315 gms
   340 gms
  1250 gms

 

Listing of potting soils and what they are used for. Be sure to visit Plant Ideas Potting Soils.

Articles

   Grow Delphiniums from Seed
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Recipes

   Garden Loam Potting Soil
   John Innes Potting Compost
   Orchid Potting Mix
   Cacti Pottingl Mix
   Seed Starting Potting mix
   Alpines Potting Mix
   Shade Potting Mix
   Cutting Potting mix
   A. Knutson Potting mixes
   CORNELL MIXES
   Cornell Peat-lite Mix
   Cornell Foliage Plant Mix
   Cornell Epiphytic Mix
   Standard Potting Mix

Links

   Recondition your BACKYARD SOIL
   Alpine Seed Mix
   Growing Bulbs from Seed
   Mixing Your Own Soil Mixtures
   Plant Ideas Potting Soils

 

 




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