Preparing a Potting Mix
January 26, 2006 // 2 CommentsNick McLeod, an Extension Officer with the DPI, Rockhampton provides some good advice to beginners.
“What is the ideal mix? Well, there is no one ideal mix. However, there are a number of essential characteristics that a potting mix should have. Plants need air, water and food, so when making up a mix, it is important that it supplies adequate quantities of air, water and nutrients.”
Published in the Rare Fruit Council Newsletter No. 58, 5/89, as an extract from the Capricornia Branch Newsletter Vol.5 No.4
KEY WORDS: potting mix, growth rate, quality, pH, nutrients, porosity, air space, leaching, waterlogging, size, shape, pot, saturated, volume, dolomite, lime, fertiliser, salinity, nutrition, plant, materials, peat, sawdust, perlite, sand, vermiculite
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