Peat Vs Coco Peat + How to Make A SIMPLE DIY Potting Mix
Peat Vs Coco Peat + How to Make A SIMPLE DIY Potting Mix
In this video, we cover the differences between peat mix and coco peat mix and give you a simple recipe to make your own coco coir based potting mix at home for cheap!
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compost mixed with coco is better than just compost
What if you mixed them?
Good advice! I have tried making my own compost!
I couldn’t believe how much the Coco Coir has gone up at my nursery. It’s practically doubled cause everyone is using it now. I’ve been using it for about 6 years now. Great stuff but I might need to go back to my old mix due to price
I’m going to have nightmares about you and that knife… I think that’s how Jerry Garcia lost his finger…
j/k… buy smaller blocks
FYI, Philippines has access to fresh water! They don’t use salt water for anything
Can you please do a video on explaining pH and give many examples of plants that require different types of pH?
Last year I mulched my garlic bed with coconut coir – it killed the lot!
How much fertilizer would you add to this amount of mix?
Thank you Luke, very informative.
A popular convention I’ve seen if you make your own mixes is to have 1 part "regular" soil mix to 1 part sand to make cacti mix. Does this mix work with that? If not, do you have a cacti mix recipe you like?
Why do they make blocks instead of just grounding it up like peat moss???
How much fertilizeR?
I saw some coco coir at the 99 cent store but it did not say where it came from. That scared me, so I didn’t get it.
I had no idea about washing the coconut peat
. I’ll be purchasing from your store.
I want to grow blueberries, can I use coco peat, compost and perlite?
I do container gardening up north in zone 5A and make my own homemade potting mix.
I start by using clay dug from my backyard I let it dry in the sun on my driveway then I crush it into a fine powder then sweep it up and collect it.
I used to use the topsoil as part of my base ingredients instead of clay, but I’ve found that the clay has way more minerals than the native topsoil in my backyard.
Basically I mix the clay, coarse garden perlite, compost, worm castings, coconut coir , plus inoculants and amendments together by hand.
Per 10 cubic foot giant wheelbarrow (1 batch):
5 gallons coconut coir
5 gallons of crushed powdered clay
5 gallons of locally-sourced earth worm castings
5 gallons of my homemade super compost (fortified with rock dust and charcoal)
5 gallons of coarse garden perlite
This is the bulk of my soil base mix. Then I add these inoculants and amendments to the base mix listed above.
(1)Bat Guano
(2)Bone meal
(3) blood meal
(4) rice hauls
(5) alfalfa meal
(6) kelp meal
(7) seaweed meal
(8) aged chicken manure
(9) green sand "mineral deposits from the ocean floor"
(10) feather meal
(11) mycorrhiza "a type of fungus"
(12) microorganism mix "multiple different types of microorganism bacteria"
(13) neem cake meal
(14) red wiggler worms about one dozen per flower pot depending on the pot size
If you could see through my soil would look like a tangled web of millions of white spider webs in the soil mixture, this is also known as Santa’s Beard, it’s a good thing
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This is the holy grail of the home gardener, it’s known as "soil hyphae" a type of mycorrhiza fungus network that has a beneficial symbiotic relationship with the vegetable plant roots.
If you’re able to achieve this hyphae network magical things happen like absolute ridiculous yields from one plant, it’s truly insane
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I basically make a living soil and let the soil feed the plants (happy soil microbes happy plants)
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The only time i actually feed the plants is maybe for the first 5 weeks. I might occasionally mix some fish emulsion with water depending on the current growth rate.
Basically if you build your soil properly in the beginning, there’s really no reason to feed your plants in my very short grow season
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Happy gardening all hope this helps someone
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As you say, peat moss is a non-renewable resource. Production involves the draining of millenia-old wetlands and harvesting the peat moss using machinery. In many parts of the world, including here in Ireland, using peat moss is generally frowned upon and has been phased out in favour of peat-free alternatives. In fact, major efforts are now in place to re-wet bogs in an attempt to repair decades of damage to these vital and fragile ecosystems. A better and more sustainable mix is 2 parts garden compost, 2 parts leaf mold (or alternatively coir) and 1 part vermicullite/perlite.