Making Your Own Container Soil Mix
The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers
Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everyone? |
| 0:02.0 | What's going on everyone? Welcome back to another awesome episode here on the |
| 0:17.1 | Epic Gardening podcast. Kevin here and I'm joined by Gary Palarchik who is |
| 0:21.6 | behind the Rusted Garden, an awesome, |
| 0:24.2 | awesome YouTube channel and blog in the store. |
| 0:27.0 | He also has a book coming out soon. |
| 0:28.3 | It's called The Modern Homestead Garden, |
| 0:30.6 | growing self-sufficiency in any size backyard. |
| 0:33.0 | Now I remember a few years ago, Gary, |
| 0:35.0 | must have been three or four by now. |
| 0:37.0 | I saw a video you've done on YouTube about |
| 0:40.0 | breaking down every different product, I guess you could say, that is sold at a garden center as far as a bagged soil style product. |
| 0:48.6 | And I think it's a, first of all, is a helpful video. |
| 0:50.9 | And second of all, I would love a bit of a recap of that before we get into |
| 0:54.4 | making a mix. |
| 0:55.4 | Okay and I think that's like what is so confusing to people is you walk into the |
| 1:00.9 | store and it's just you know one whole outdoor side filled with the bag products. |
| 1:06.8 | And they're all a variation of earth and really peat moss. You start with like your fill dirt which is just plain old |
| 1:16.6 | dirt and you don't really use that in your garden. And then you go to topsoil |
| 1:20.3 | where they add in a little bit of peat moss that gives it a little more moisture holding capability and browns it up a little bit. |
| 1:29.0 | So you got your filter, your topsoil, and then they go to garden soil which isn't for containers but it's just again more |
| 1:37.1 | peat moss added to it so it's a little bit nicer than the topsoil and that's recommended to kind of put into your garden if you're |
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