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
