we’re making some potting soil today and
any good potting soil meets three
criteria it retains moisture for a long
time it drains well and it has enough
fertility to get the plants off to a
good start in life if you grow out a lot
of potted plants every year like we do
you could wind up spending hundreds of
dollars a year on on good potting soil
it’s good to learn how to make your own
soil we’re gonna start this potting soil
out with a bucket full of sand got to
have sand in your potting soil to make
sure it drains well next what you want
to do is you want to pile up a bunch of
leaves or wood chips you let them rot
down for a year or two and you scrape
off the top and you’ll see some nice
black stuff underneath this is the
component of the mixture that’s gonna
hold a lot of water the the sand and
this this woody organic matter provides
a nice Airy substrate for the plant to
hang out in but it provides little
fertility we got a secret ingredient
that provides the fertility that this
material is lacking all right on to the
next step now time for the screwed
ingredient we take the rabbit poopies
and we shovel them over here into this
bath tub and there’s red worms in here
and they eat up the rabbit poo peas and
then they poop out our fertilizer of
choice and worm castings worm castings
are awesome they’re really expensive too
if you try to buy them catch on the flip
side bunny rabbits so now we’re going to
mix up our potting soil all right so we
got we got our sand we got our rotted
down woodchips and we got worm castings
there’s a whole web of symbiotic
relationships taking place in the soil
the sand enhances the potting soils
ability to drink this is a sponge
essentially so this holds moisture in
the potting soil mixture this has all of
the nutrients that that a plane
needs to get get a good start in life
let’s go ahead and sift these materials
so that they’re more manageable as you
can see this mixture is becoming coarser
and coarser so longer I’m sifting it and
that’s because the nice fine stuff is
slipping through this sieve and I’m just
gonna kick this stuff off to the side
and chickens and tea plants have at it
there’s a nice sifted stuff as you can
see now let’s dump in our worm castings
all right I think we got this pretty
well sifted check this aside let’s throw
in our sand once we have this all mixed
up we’ll just pack this away into
buckets under the house and Buster that
when we’re ready to plant some trees
any good potting soil meets three
criteria it retains moisture for a long
time it drains well and it has enough
fertility to get the plants off to a
good start in life if you grow out a lot
of potted plants every year like we do
you could wind up spending hundreds of
dollars a year on on good potting soil
it’s good to learn how to make your own
soil we’re gonna start this potting soil
out with a bucket full of sand got to
have sand in your potting soil to make
sure it drains well next what you want
to do is you want to pile up a bunch of
leaves or wood chips you let them rot
down for a year or two and you scrape
off the top and you’ll see some nice
black stuff underneath this is the
component of the mixture that’s gonna
hold a lot of water the the sand and
this this woody organic matter provides
a nice Airy substrate for the plant to
hang out in but it provides little
fertility we got a secret ingredient
that provides the fertility that this
material is lacking all right on to the
next step now time for the screwed
ingredient we take the rabbit poopies
and we shovel them over here into this
bath tub and there’s red worms in here
and they eat up the rabbit poo peas and
then they poop out our fertilizer of
choice and worm castings worm castings
are awesome they’re really expensive too
if you try to buy them catch on the flip
side bunny rabbits so now we’re going to
mix up our potting soil all right so we
got we got our sand we got our rotted
down woodchips and we got worm castings
there’s a whole web of symbiotic
relationships taking place in the soil
the sand enhances the potting soils
ability to drink this is a sponge
essentially so this holds moisture in
the potting soil mixture this has all of
the nutrients that that a plane
needs to get get a good start in life
let’s go ahead and sift these materials
so that they’re more manageable as you
can see this mixture is becoming coarser
and coarser so longer I’m sifting it and
that’s because the nice fine stuff is
slipping through this sieve and I’m just
gonna kick this stuff off to the side
and chickens and tea plants have at it
there’s a nice sifted stuff as you can
see now let’s dump in our worm castings
all right I think we got this pretty
well sifted check this aside let’s throw
in our sand once we have this all mixed
up we’ll just pack this away into
buckets under the house and Buster that
when we’re ready to plant some trees
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