Potting Soil

Much of your success when potting houseplants depends on your choice of a potting media. A key ingredient, it promotes good watering control for your plants.

Select a true potting media and not a compost based soil mixture. Composts are best used as organic amendments for outdoor soils.

Here are several tips for creating a wonderful hanging basket or container this summer. The first is to use an artificial soil composed mostly of peat moss and/or perlite. Garden soil compacts and hardens after regular watering. Root growth is inhibited because they require porous  spaces to expand. Hard, compacted soils do not grow promote healthy root growth. You should recycle potting soil from year to year.  It will retain it’s natural porosity indefinitely.

A good potting soil should stay porous and allow watering and fertilizing at an even and consistent rate.

Caring for your Houseplants