Prepare Your Garden Soil With Perlite – 2020 Update

Here is a little introduction on how to prepare garden soil for your spring planting. We are just getting our garden started and the seeds have become little plants. They are big enough now to separate them into individual containers. You will want to prepare your garden soil properly to get the best nutrition from your food and create a healthy growing environment.

Getting Started

Usually the soil amendment is too think and heavy for seedlings so you will need to add something to make it lighter so the soil gets more air. You will need your soil amendment and Perlite which is an organic rock that  is used as a component of growing mixes where it provides aeration and optimum moisture retention for superior plant growth.

Here are the steps to take when preparing your garden soil for the seedlings.

1. First you take the plain soil amendment that consists of fir bark, forest hummus, rice hulls, 15% chicken manure, worm castings, bat guano, kelp meal, oyster shell lime and mycorrhizae. Then add the perlite and mix it together in the ratio 1/3 perlite to 2/3 soil.
2. When this is nicely mixed you can take the mixture and put it in some cups and then add your individual baby plants.
3. You can cut slits in the cups for water drainage so the roots of the plant don’t drown. Make sure you don’t poke a hole in the middle.

I hope this has been helpful to you gardeners out there. We are looking forward to having some happy healthy plants.