Container Soil Mixes for Trees and Shrubs

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 8 minutes

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What is the perfect mix for container trees? Turns out the answer is a little different than you might expect. Connect with Cameron Akrami: Cameron Akrami is the man behind The Busy Gardener and is known for fruit trees and backyard orchard culture. Subscribe to The Busy Gardener Follow on Instagram Check out Cameron’s website Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your first order of Birdies metal raised garden beds, the best metal raised beds in the world. They last 5-10x longer than wooden beds, come in multiple heights and dimensions, and look absolutely amazing. Click here to shop Birdies Garden Beds Buy My Book My book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, is a beginners guide to growing food in small spaces, covering 6 different methods and offering rock-solid fundamental gardening knowledge: Order on Amazon Order a signed copy Follow Epic Gardening YouTube Instagram Pinterest Facebook Facebook Group Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you are a container gardener, whether that's for annuals or you want to experiment with
0:18.3	some fruit trees, especially coming up this year, this is the episode for you here on
0:22.9	the Epic Gardening Podcast.
0:24.1	Kevin's here to here.
0:25.1	I've got Cameron from the Busy Gardeners back on the show.
0:29.3	I know both UNI CAM have been doing in-ground, mostly in-ground.
0:34.3	I don't know.
0:35.3	Do you experiment with any container stuff right now or no?
0:37.7	I've got a couple and it's a little hit or miss, honestly.
0:40.6	Sure.
0:41.6	Okay.
0:42.6	Well, that's what this show is about today, so we're focusing today on the soil mix, which
0:46.5	can really confuse people because you and I did a citrus planting video on the Epic
0:51.4	Gardening YouTube channel, which I think was fantastic.
0:53.4	I learned a lot from you on that.
0:55.6	You know, we're advising planting it somewhat high in the ground to avoid the drainage issue
0:59.9	and then just planting it in the native soil, not really doing a lot of amending, so it
1:03.8	seems like the follow-up question is, okay, well, if I'm making a soil mix, then what am
1:09.1	I supposed to make it out of?
1:10.1	You guys didn't even add anything to that soil, right?
1:13.3	Yeah, for sure.
1:14.8	Yeah, the soil for containers differs totally from planting stuff in the ground.
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