
Potting Soil Recipes
Save money and grow healthy plants by making a potting soil mixture yourself. Read ahead for easy-to-follow recipes, and make them in batches to be used at your convenience.
Sheetal Mandora
Last Updated: Jan 12, 2019
Ingredients
- ⅓ screened mature compost
- ⅓ sharp sand
- ⅓ garden topsoil
Ingredients
- 6 parts fir bark
- 1 part peat moss
- 1 part medium grade charcoal
Ingredients
- 10 lbs bone meal
- 5 lbs blood meal
- 5 lbs ground limestone
- ½ cubic yard sphagnum peat
- ½ cubic yard vermiculite
Ingredients
- 2 parts sand
- 2 parts aged manure
- 2 parts leaf mold
- 6 parts compost
- 3 parts soil
- 1 part pre-wet and sifted peat moss
- 1 6 inch pot bone meal
This next recipe works well for small and medium plug trays, and can grow 1020 flats of peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, squash, cucumbers, and many flowers. You can also fertilize them two times in a week with fish and seaweed fertilizer, which is dissoluble.
Ingredients
- 4 cubic ft. bales sphagnum peat moss
- 1 bag coarse vermiculite
- 1 bag coarse perlite
- 5 parts dolomitic limestone
- 10 parts kelp meal
- 10 parts blood meal
- 15 parts steamed bone meal
Ingredients
- 1 part humus (compost)
- 2 parts loamy soil
- 1 part sand
Ingredients
- 3 parts organic potting mix
- 1 part sand
- 1 part perlite
Preparing these recipes at home is always better than buying it from the store and risking if it will work or not. Always select top quality ingredients to make the soil yourself, and let your garden prosper. The only difference between a store-bought kind and the homemade mix is your blossoming garden.