Potting Soil Doesnt Have Soil
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Epic Gardening
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
We call it potting soil, but there’s no true ‘soil’ in it at all! Today Lisa shares how she mixes her own soil, what she uses, and some other choice potting mix tips.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast Kevin here and we are |
| 0:16.7 | joined by Lisa Seinkoff who is a blogger over at the House Plant Guru but |
| 0:21.7 | also the author of multiple books and the most recent one is called House Plant Party, fun projects, and growing tips for epic indoor plants. |
| 0:29.0 | And we're talking today, we talked yesterday about humidity and watering watering and we sort of touched a little |
| 0:33.9 | bit on this idea of you know very heavy peat mixes or you know the fact that those |
| 0:39.2 | don't rehydrate as well and that brings us to this idea we call it potting soil a lot of the time |
| 0:44.4 | Lisa but really in truth there's not soil in it at all right? |
| 0:49.8 | Usually not anymore I always just call it potting medium but I go back and forth because everybody |
| 0:56.6 | knows what I'm talking about when I say potting soil. It's just the fact that a lot of it doesn't |
| 1:01.7 | have soil anymore. |
| 1:03.0 | And when we say, when we mean soil, |
| 1:04.3 | we're like something you would go out in the garden |
| 1:06.3 | and dig up is soil, right? |
| 1:11.1 | I have a plant that was, most of my grandmothers, and my brother had it for a long time and he was moving or whatever he just it was getting big it was the Norfolk Island Pine. |
| 1:19.0 | Well it is I still have it and he brought it to me and I was like I'm going to put it in a pretty pot. I have |
| 1:24.7 | everything's in a green pot or a whatever, a colorful pot here or a nice clay pot. And I took |
| 1:30.8 | it out of the pot and it was literally like gray cement. |
| 1:34.0 | And I was like, what in the heck is why? |
| 1:37.0 | I had to actually like chip it off with like a screwdriver, like chip it and I called him I'm like what is up with this where did you get this soil he goes oh I he lives out in the country and he's like I just went out in the farmers field and grabbed a shovel full of dirt. I think that's why we quit using that. And you know if you |
| 1:58.0 | read some of the older, you know, house plant books, they tell you to bake, you know, use that soil and you bake it and I can't |
| 2:05.3 | imagine what, and they all say well I know it's going to smell bad but it, you know, it kills |
| 2:08.8 | anything. I don't bake anything but really good chocolate chip cookies. So you don't |
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