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Make Your Own PREMIUM Potting Soil For Half The Cost Of Potting Mix At Big Box Stores!



This video will show you how to make your own premium potting soil for half the cost of potting mix at big box stores! This DIY potting mix is easy to make, inexpensive, super high quality and is a great all-purpose potting mix for container gardening!

Homemade potting soil is not only a great way to save money, but you can control all the ingredients that go into the process! This homemade potting mix recipe is a great all-purpose potting mix for most container gardening applications.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Making Potting Mix Of Premium Quality
0:36 Potting Mix Prices At Big Box Stores
1:48 Differences In Potting Soil Types
2:33 Comparing Potting Mix Prices & My Potting Soil Recipe
5:04 How To Make Your Own Potting Soil
8:14 DIY Potting Soil Results!
10:15 Adventures With Dale

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41 Comments

  1. The Millennial Gardener

    If you found this video helpful, please "Like" and share to help increase its reach. Thanks for watching! 😊TIMESTAMPS for convenience:
    0:00 Making Potting Mix Of Premium Quality
    0:36 Potting Mix Prices At Big Box Stores
    1:48 Differences In Potting Soil Types
    2:33 Comparing Potting Mix Prices & My Potting Soil Recipe
    5:04 How To Make Your Own Potting Soil
    8:14 DIY Potting Soil Results!
    10:15 Adventures With Dale

  7. Sara

    How did this mix work for you last year? I was starting to do a different mix from a different video of yours and I couldn't find that video and I found this one. I did write the other recipe down it was half Peet or cocoa core and have potting mix plus fertilizer add-ins. Was wondering if it would be too much moisture retention for baby figs. I don't have compost but I have Coast compost potting soil and some chicken manure pellet. Thought about doing the first recipe but with perlite added in since I have potting soil. I have bad luck with repotting starts and this year the roots are looking Brown ish makes me nervous.

  8. Tammy Depew

    I bought the 3 cubic ft if peat moss $20 now unfortunately anyway there were no big bags if perlite in my store so could you please tell me how much of that I’m suppose to use.

    I also bought 3 bags of black cow manure and 2 mushroom compost would I only use the black cow?

  9. 71160000

    Having a bit of land in the country I have ten large raised beds and quiet a few potted plants. That's a lot of soil to be replaced or renewed every year of so. I buy around 14 yards of compost mixed with chicken manure every other year. I let it set for most of a year before using it to allow the heat to dissipate out and the mix not burn my plants. It's the cheapest solution for me and also the least work. I can scoop a load of compost in my tractor loader and drive it to the raised beds and shovel it in until I have the beds topped up. The worms are crazy prolific in the beds without me even adding any. Plants grow like wild. Cost is $25 per yard and you can buy it by the yard if you have a pickup or sacked at a higher price. For me I pay for delivery by dump truck. I have a picture of a green eggplant that is sitting next to a gallon milk jug and they are the same size. I think it might have been a giant asian variety but not sure. I got the original seed from a friend almost forty years ago and now I find myself trying to find the same seed as somehow I let mine get away from me.

  10. Miss Abbott

    I wished the peat moss what that cheap where I’m from. That same 3cuft bag cost $80 where I’m from.

  16. Mark Flick

    I’m 65 and recently retired, thought I knew something about gardening ,then I started watching your videos about 3 months ago .Man have I learned A lot . Thank you for sharing your information with me (us) . Look forward to learning more . God Bless

  17. Joy

    Great video. It is very bad that I used top spil, peat moss, perlite and black cow manure to make my soil?

  21. Fishing Pinky

    THANK THANK THANK you. I just put together my raised beds and was wondering how to fill them up and not break the bank.

  26. PhyterNL

    So you bought a 2 cu ft bag of Perlite but you added half, correct? So in fact, only 1 cu ft of Perlite. A recipe would be nice.

  28. Larry

    It's pretty certain there is no aminopyralid in peat moss or perlite, but no less of an authority than the famous Charles Dowding advises testing any batch of compost before using it to grow your garden plants.

  30. Mike K

    Just wanted to say thanks. This video gave me the confidence to make my own mix this season. I saved so much money doing it. I had a lot of re-potting of house plants plus all of my peppers going outside to pot up so I needed more soil than normal this year. I used this video as a reference to make my own plus added some amendments of my choosing as you suggested near the end. Saved me so much money this year plus it was a lot of fun and rewarding knowing exactly what is in my mix. I won't need as much soil next year but I will still make my own as the savings can not be debated. Cheers.

  36. MERCEDESBENZS600 BASH

    Great information 👍🏾 👌🏾 👏🏾 Is there a cheaper alternative for bone,blood meal,lime,etc,becauseonce you buy all of those are we still saving money and are they really essential to use??? Now im wondering if the plants will grow great just in the premium potting mix,what do you think???

  37. Andreas Hamm

    Another way to save money on potting mix is to buy it in bulk; I buy 1/2m3 at a time and it comes out to be about 30% of the cost of bagged product. Not as good as the great mix in this video but also not much work;)

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