Potting Soil Question

Father'sDaughter · October 29, 2016

I went Wondersoil for my grow bags and am never going back.

Thankfully I learned here to never use potting soil, so I started out with potting mix and a little composted manure mixed in. It worked fine, but the bagged potting mix cost a fortune unless I bought the larger bags on sale. And when I bought the big bags, they were a struggle to load into my car, and they were a struggle to unload from the car to the wheelbarrow.

I buy the Wondersoil cubes from Home Depot with free shipping if I spend more than $45 and they're lightweight and easy to move around. As long as I stay on top of watering and fertilizing, I get fantastic yields from my grow bag tomatoes and peppers. Much better than the plants growing in my apparently diseased raised beds.

I'm not really sure what potting soil works for. Maybe they expect you to mix a bunch of stuff into it, where as potting mix is already...mixed????

October 29, 2016	#15
Father'sDaughter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: MA/NH Border Posts: 4,919	I went Wondersoil for my grow bags and am never going back. Thankfully I learned here to never use potting soil, so I started out with potting mix and a little composted manure mixed in. It worked fine, but the bagged potting mix cost a fortune unless I bought the larger bags on sale. And when I bought the big bags, they were a struggle to load into my car, and they were a struggle to unload from the car to the wheelbarrow. I buy the Wondersoil cubes from Home Depot with free shipping if I spend more than $45 and they're lightweight and easy to move around. As long as I stay on top of watering and fertilizing, I get fantastic yields from my grow bag tomatoes and peppers. Much better than the plants growing in my apparently diseased raised beds. I'm not really sure what potting soil works for. Maybe they expect you to mix a bunch of stuff into it, where as potting mix is already...mixed????