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

Listing of potting soils and
what they are used for.

Articles

   Grow
Delphiniums from Seed

   Container
Gardening

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

 

 


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