Potting Soil Recipes and Soil Reconditioning

Standard Potting
Mix

1.5 Bales of Lakeland
Coarse Peat
2 Bags of Supreme Perlite
1 Bag of Turface
Total:
9.75
Bushels
6.00 Bushels
1.50 Bushels

17.0 Bushels

Add by weight:

Dolomite
GS AG;
Micromax
Aquagro `G’
Osmocote 18-6-12
  950
gms (56 gm per bushel)
  515 gms (30 gm per bushel)
   515 gms (30 gm per bushel)
   2390 gms(140 gm per bushel)High
Rate
   1595
gms (94 gm per bushel) Low

Rate:
High rate-Late spring and summer potting of general nursery stock, until August
15.
Low rate-Potting of Ericaceous plants or general nursery stock after August
15.

For Seedlings and Small Container Stock (21/4″, 3″, 4″) Add 3 bushels of screened,
pasteurized soil to a standard potting mix to make it 15% soil and use low rate
of 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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