Building the Perfect Houseplant Soil

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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It might be a no-brainer to some that houseplants do best in soil mixes that simulate their native habitat. But not doing this is a mistake so many first-timers make. You can use indoor potting mix, but with houseplants it’s likely you’ll have to make some adjustments. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/461epRA Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3u7xW5K Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3svOnYO EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3QuMuDE Learn More: 31 Flowering Houseplants For Your Indoor Garden Connect With Krystal Duran: Krystal Duran, a plant care educator who enthusiastically shares her houseplant experiences, houseplant tips for beginners, while encouraging others to take on the world of indoor house plants. Instagram TikTok YouTube Pinterest Facebook Website Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're talking soil today,
0:03.0	everyone,
0:04.0	house.
0:05.0	We're talking soil.
0:10.0	We're talking soil today,, house plant soil, and the many different types, and I have to be honest.
0:17.0	We have Crystal Duran, back on the show, Plants with Crystal, all over the internet.
0:21.0	I have committed publicly and to you, that I will be getting back in the house
0:25.6	plants a little bit this season.
0:28.1	The thing I think I've probably disrespected the most in my prior house my life was soil mixes and soil types. I sort of was just like, well, okay, like maybe it matters, but I'm just going to kind of do what I want. And I think I was a bit of a sinner as far as what you mentioned yesterday just putting in a random potting mix, right?
0:46.5	And so maybe we could start out here with, is there anything off the shelf at a nursery that is good as a house plant mix or do you kind of
0:56.7	of custom mix everything? I the way that I also teach is I want everyone to be able to access whatever they have available and use that.
1:08.0	Right, so I'm going to recommend that if you have something like a local nursery or a big box store, then yes, go ahead and get that indoor potting mix.
1:19.0	But then the amendments that you use, I think is what's really important too for the overall health of your
1:24.8	plant. So let's take a plant I historically had struggled with like let's say
1:31.0	a piece lily. How would you construct the soil for something like that?
1:35.5	Like how would you think about making that soil mix? So I want something that's going to retain
1:40.5	moisture a little bit more knowing that a peacefully, you know, needs watering a bit
1:46.3	more often if you had a super well draining mix.
1:49.2	So I would maybe incorporate some indoor potting mix, some cocoa core that will hold on to the
1:57.9	moisture.
1:59.5	And then along with the piece Lily needing extra water, it doesn't want to sit in moisture for too long
2:05.9	though or it's going to rock. So I want to incorporate some additional amendments to help with
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