Gardening flowers at home - homemade potting soil

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Materials for preparing potting soil

specific methods

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There are two ways to grow flowers at home: ground planting and potted planting. Potted flowers have limited capacity due to the limited capacity of the flowerpot. In order to meet the requirements for flower growth and development as much as possible, the culture soil must be artificially prepared. Today let’s learn a simple method of making potting soil.

Materials for preparing potting soil

Materials for preparing pot soil

Garden soil (vegetable garden soil, pastoral soil)

This is ordinary cultivation soil, due to frequent fertilization and cultivation, It has high fertility and good pellet structure, and is one of the main raw materials for preparation and culture. Surface sandy loam soils that have been planted with vegetable or legume crops are best.  

Humulus soil (humus soil)

Using leaves and weeds of various plants, mixed with garden soil, adding water and human excrement, and then accumulated, fermented and decomposed. The culture soil is acidic. It must be exposed and screened before use.

Land mud

This is a The soil containing humus is loose and acidic. Compared with Huangshan mud and Black Mountain mud, the former has a thicker texture and less humus. It is often used as the main culture raw material for acid-loving flowers such as camellia, orchids, and azaleas.  

River sand (plain sand soil)

It has good drainage and air permeability. When mixed into heavy clay soil, it can improve the physical structure of the soil and increase soil drainage and air permeability. It can be used as a material for preparing culture soil, or it can be used alone as a cutting or sowing substrate. When sea sand is used as culture soil, it must be washed with fresh water, otherwise the salt content will be too high, which will affect the growth of flowers.  

Ashes

Ashes after burning straw or other weeds are rich in potassium fertilizer. Add it to the culture soil to make it well-drained and loose, and increase the potash content to make it alkaline.

Bone meal

It is a fertilizer powder made by grinding and fermenting animal bones. It contains a large amount of phosphate fertilizer.

Wood chips (sawdust)

It It has all the soil conditions required for potted flowers: loose and ventilated, good water retention and permeability, strong thermal insulation, can reduce the temperature difference in the pot between day and night, light weight and clean and hygienic. Neutral and slightly acidic. When used alone, it cannot fix plants. It is often mixed with other materials.

Specific methods

Pine leaf preparation soil

Under the larch tree, a layer of fallen leaves accumulates every autumn and winter. The leaves of larch are small, flat and light. , soft and easy to crush. After accumulating for a period of time, these fallen leaves can be used as materials for preparation and cultivation, and are particularly ideal for cultivating rhododendrons.  

Method

Gather the fallen leaves and topsoil under the larch trees, pile them up for 1 to 2 winters, sift them to remove stones and residual branches, and pay attention to compaction when using.

Larch leaves can also be used as materials for preparing acidic and slightly acidic cultures and improving looseness and permeability.

specific methods

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