DIY Potting Soil Mix for a Fraction of the Cost!

If you're building a container garden this year, you're going to need a lot of dirt! This basic potting soil mix is perfect for planting in containers.

Using simple ingredients like topsoil, manure, and peat moss, you can fill those pots with high-quality potting soil, which costs about 1/4 of what those pre-made bags would run you. Not only will your plants grow big and strong, but that's money back in your wallet, which is always a plus!

You can also add some bark - for moisture retention, organic fertilizer, and the few optional extras listed below.

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Peat Moss

Top Soil

Steer Manure

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[mikek]

I remember watching this video some years back. Boy have things ever changed in the gardening world. Making your own mix is no longer the cost savings it used to be. I'm doing some early planning for spring and the cost of supplies sure have skyrocketed. I used to be able to make roughly twice the amount of diy mix for half the cost of bagged. You can still save, but it's not nearly the savings it use to be and in some cases it could cost about the same as buying a 2cu bag of pre made mix. I hate how greedy the world got.

[dra]

What a marvelous 💡idea! Thank you, I certainly will enjoy following your instructions. Again, thank you for being so thoughtful to share such a great and important information with us 🤗👌🌻🍓

[CuriousinNY]

Excellent excellent video! Thank you for taking the time to produce it.

[katrinagarland]

This was an excellent tutorial on how to make quality potting soil. thanks so much!

[lucideuphoria]

ive been making my own cheap potting mix as i found a lot of the "premium" organic potting mixes here are full of sticks, bark, tyres, concrete, plastic and chipboard. Basically landfill compost.

Mine is dead basic as i feed nutes. 1 part Perlite, 1 part Coir and 2 parts compost. First time i used premium ingredients (mushroom compost, peat moss, blood meal/potash, dolomite lime) and it went far better than any potting mix i used. Last three times i used basic compost from the local nursery, $5 for 50L and a $3 coir block. Still worked far better, drained better and was far more aerated than the premium potting mixes at bunnings.

I'll never buy premium mix again. I can get 120L of fine medium for $13 compared to $18 for the 50L of sticks, bark and building site waste bunning's sold me previously.

[jadeliu]

Yay! Thank you, this is amazing and very helpful for a newbie like me. Looking forward to wonderful growing season!

[Demebeso]

Thank you so much..never ever thought to do this..will try..and yes that was a big big pot for one plant..but I trust your words on the plants future growth..Great Video..!!!!

[TortugaR]

Great video. I'd like to add that I'm also researching wicking tubs as I have a friend doing it with great success. Super helpful in Texas where you have to water daily in s regular pot. Wicking tubs allow you to only water once or twice a week depending on your setup and the plant's needs.

[ericasmith]

Yes I will I would of done that with m uh tomato plant I've learned I put to many holes at the bottom but its my first time gardening and its a great learning process

[pitmarine]

loved the video...had to time planter looking to learn & i love how u explain stuff

[veronicajones]

Thanks for that, it's really helped and putting the holes at the sides of the pot makes good sense, I never thought of that!

[patricialanza]

Thanks for this video. I have been gardening for a very long time and at age 85 have gone to pot (s). This year I am emptying and refilling all my pots and you have the best recipe I have seen. Also like the combo of soils and mix you use. BTW I wrote three Lasagna Gardening books and still do that in the ground but had to move some things to pots. I layer them like i do my in ground gardens but it looks so good to mix it all up I might do one just to feel the soil over my arms. Thanks again.

[starduster]

Awesome video, thanks for sharing... and the 511😍

[MaLiArtworks]

I shake all my ingredients in a Home Depot bucket with a top on it. Great arm exercise. Have to do this three times for 15 gallon planter but most of my garden plants are planted in Home Depot buckets. I put holes on the side like he does. Not in the bottom. Great video!

[JeeJeanVittoVlogs]

Awesome channel. Very informative.. thank you for sharing.

[leeh]

Thanks for the video and taking your time! :)

[juliegonzalez]

Thank you for the video. I learned a lot. You made it look so easy to understand! I will not buy potting soil again. Looking forward to watching your other videos.

[lindaray]

I use a small concrete mixer to mix my homemade potting soils. I have a lot of large pots. Each year I like to rejuvenate the soil by adding 50% new product. I do add some vermiculite to the mix. I have had good success with this method. Any excess "old potting soil" gets put onto in ground flower beds, or used to fill low areas. My native soil is quite poor with excessive rocks (more rock than dirt) so gardening and planting anything in ground is a major challenge. I have mostly pots and raised beds.

[tlgardens]

Excellent vid. I might have added a couple tablespoons of epsons salts and maybe a little perlite. and since I have a worm farm, a handful of worm castings. Your explanations were tremendous. Thanks for the vid.

[bucktalesoutdoors]

Excellent video we will be trying a new approach on our previous failed attempts at gardening this spring and this may be the route we go. Thanks for sharing.