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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Making Your Own Container Soil Mix

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Gary Pilarchik is back to talk about how to make the best container soil mix you'll ever grow in. Connect With Gary Pilarchik: Gary Pilarchik is the man behind The Rusted Garden, a wildly popular YouTube channel. He also has a blog of the same name, as well as a store where he sells seeds and gardening supplies. His book, The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-Sufficiency in Any Size Backyard. Buy Birdies Garden Beds Use code EPICPODCAST for 10% 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

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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