The right mix makes all the difference
If you ask an experienced vegetable gardener about his secret of success, he will first tell you the quality of his potting soil. Vegetable plants need a nutrient-rich, well-drained soil, bulging with busy microorganisms. The following mixture has proven itself excellently in the private vegetable garden:
- Garden soil, also known as topsoil
- Ripe compost from our own Manufacturing
- Aggregates, tailored to the local framework
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More valuable Topsoil forms the foundation for every ornamental and vegetable garden. The garden soil is mostly used after a new building or as part of the garden design filled up. With more mature Compost soil enrich existing garden soil with all the important nutrients that vegetables want. You can add sand or fine-grained topsoil to very loamy or clayey topsoil Grit(€ 49.99 at Amazon *) the necessary permeability as aggregates.
Coconut soil as a peat substitute
On the rise as an ecologically sensible addition for Vegetable soil is coconut soil as a peat substitute. Good potting soil for vegetables should be soaked with irrigation or rainwater, like a sponge. The moisture is then successively released to the roots without causing waterlogging. For many decades, peat performed this task as the main component of potting soil.
Near-natural, environmentally conscious hobby gardeners have banned peat from their vegetable garden because living bog areas are being destroyed for mining. It has long been found that the shell fibers of coconuts fulfill the functions of peat just as well.
You can get coconut earth in the trade in pressed brick form. You dissolve a humus brick in lukewarm water. Since the coconut fibers do not contain any nutrients, fertilize The water on with a liquid one Vegetable fertilizer.(€ 14.99 at Amazon *) Mix the coconut soil in equal parts with garden soil and compost - the perfect potting soil for your vegetables is ready.
Tips
If you are preparing the bed for your valuable strawberry plants, please ignore your own garden compost. As part of the rotting process, plenty of salt and lime has accumulated, which your strawberries don't like at all. Quality Potting soil for strawberries consists of garden soil, leaf compost or bark humus and a few handfuls Horn meal.
