Potting Soil Ingredients: What’s In Your Potting Soil

Understanding the importance of potting soil is key to the health of any plant. Soil is where all plants received their nutrients to photosynthesize properly. Also, all potting soil isn’t created equally. A lot of times, it we don’t even know what makes good soil, good. Here are the main conponents of potting soil and thier purpose.

Understanding the role of each ingredient will help you

learn to create you own potting mix specific to your plant’s needs

understand each ingredient’s purpose

Difference Between Potting Soil & Potting Mix?

Peat Moss

Coconut Coir

Perlite

Wood Chips / Orchid Bark

Activated Charcoal

Sand

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