How to Make Container Soil at Home (EASY & CHEAP)
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- Learn the secret to our abundant vegetables in container gardens.
In this video we show you how we make the best container garden soil mix and
it EASY and CHEAP making it at home.
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Peat moss, Black Kow, potting mix and Perlite.
I’m so glad I found your channel, your videos are the most instructional and informative for gardening I’ve ever watched and I appreciate seeing the start to end of the planting! Thank you!
My 14 yr old grandson and I are using your channel to teach him container gardening for homeschool. Thanks!!!
I see the Black Kow as being necessary. Dont listen to the haters your gardens are alway beautiful. Also seeing fish as being necessary for a wonderful garden. I make my own compost and like to use fish also.
Thank you Pamela❤️
I started using Black Kow after noticing buyers at Lowe’s buying it over all other products, even tho their other soil products were “bargain barrel” products. I was already using peat for lightness and water mediation. Once I got black kow mixed up with the other soils, it felt right. It sells out early, too. This year, however, the chase is for finding that good Canadian sphagnum peat moss!
Convoy! Yea, Canada!
@@mousiebrown1747
Hi!
I hav been buying peat for yrs and its always been so dry looking and dusty but I assume that's what it looks like right?
Well last night I got some peat at Lowes and got it home opened the back and it was absolutely beautiful! It was coal black! And wasn't full of chips and all that other garbage!
I couldn't even tell the dif in color from my dirt!!
It's the same bag I always get (brand) green bag,
Did I finally hit jack pot? Is this what peat is supposed to look like? Real nice and black?
My regret is there was only one bag!!
Hopefully I will be able to get more of this beautiful black peat!
Oh and just for the record I've always got my peat at walmart, this is the first time I've gotten it at Lowes.
Could that hav been the reason for it being so georgous and black?
I'm trying to hav the perfect garden this year!
@@mousiebrown1747 where did you find Black Kow? Which Lowes? I am in GTA.
Thank you for sharing both the how to and God’s word
I absolutely love your gardening channel!!! I learn so much useful information!! And, yes GOD IS GOOD. Without Him nothing would exist!!😊😊😊
Thank you so much .bought my stuff and am ready to 🪴 plant my tomatoes 🍅 and 🌶 peppers. First time gardening. I'm so excited 😊. Thank you, Lord, for Hollis and Nancy. May you continue to use them for your Glory Amen 🙏
I have watched several videos on mixing your own soil. Thank you for keeping yours so simple, it is the best one I've found. May God continue to richly bless you and yours.
I love that Nancy always wishes us a blessed day, even in the videos she does not show up in.
Thank you so much. I'm really learning a lot from your channel since I found it recently. God bless you.
Thank you very much sir. My kids and I love all of your videos. Especially my kids they love how Miss Nancy say “ Have a bless day!” at the end of the video. We love and looking forward to the end of the video to find out which Bible verb will be😍 Most of all, we pray for your good health to make more videos in the future 🙏😇🙏 Have a bless day! 🙏😇🙏
1 part Peat
1 part Black Kow
1 part potting mix
2.5 qt perlite
I will just starting out next spring hope to do it for many years I'm 78. I was going to buy a cheap cement mixer at harbor freight. Love your recipe. Thanks jim
I’m thinking about getting me one of them too!!!
Your videos are great! I’m 68 but feel even I can have a big garden!
We used this method this year and our plants are FABULOUS! It's AMAZING! Thank you!
I love your gardening skills, how you share. I have learned so much from you and Nancy. I watch your videos over and over..thank you for all you do.
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Been watching your videos for years and they are always amazing! Adding some large containers to the garden this year so I came to the container king for potting mix advice! Thank you, sir. Keep up the great work!
Im new to this gardening thing and i made the mistake of using potting soil mix to transplant my seedlings and nothing else, no compost or perlite of fertilizer, and was wondering why my plants wasnt growing and ultimately died... So now im here looking at your video again and im going to make my soil just like you and try again ... Thank you for so much insite on gardening in containers...
Its a good recipe. Used it when you posted about it years ago. Worst mistake i have made is having my containers getting way too compact
You are amazing! and you're a good teacher! continue to stay blessed
I am planning for my container garden and you are the first person I thought of!! You give fantastic advice! Thank you and may God continue to bless your family.
Wow! You two are 👍🏾! Keep on doing what you are doing. A total newbie, but loving your videos. They are so easy to follow and comprehend. God Bless both of you! 🙏🏾
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You are my favourite person to watch concerning gardening…
Great video how to make the container soil at home, thanks for sharing to us such amazing lesson for gardening work
I wish I had seen this. I was tryna scramble to find stuff like vermiculite and all that complicated stuff. This is stuff that's readily available at my nearest Lowe's for about $33 bucks (off sale). This helped a ton! Thank you so much.
I always wait until the end of the video to pray with you. Even if the video is from awhile ago!
I used your 1/3, 1/3 and 1/3 v Combo and it just produced a ton-over and over again. It definitely works.
Two years later, thanks so much for your helpful advice 🙏
Greetings from Texas. 🙂
Thanks for watching ❤️
Hey long time sense I saw yall. How is everything. God bless and I'm doing well. Thanks for dirt tip. Love you guy's. Reggie
Great this is why the plants look great, thank you for teaching us it is so rewarding to grow our food.
So true!
I have watched so many of y’all’s videos and I love how you bring us through the whole process of something you are doing. I just watched Mrs. Nancy’s USA Kimchi video this morning and I can’t wait to try making it. I just started my own TH-cam channel and hope to one day be as great at gardening as you two. Thanks for y’all’s videos and keep teaching us beginners. 👍🏻
Our pleasure!
Thank you! Blessings back at you both.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! Your channel is a treasure trove of hands on learning for everyone that wants to take advantage of your knowledge. God bless you and your beautiful wife for sharing what He has enabled you with! ✝️🇺🇲
Thank you so much for watching. So glad you find our videos helpful 👍
Good morning! God
blessed you both. Thanks for helping my garden out. You both are the best.
Hollis thanks again for so good advice.I always enjoyed your podcast.🙏
Hollis I really enjoy your videos I've been trying to do container gardening the last two years last year We just had Tomatoes and Peppers & I had 3 plants that grew a nice stalk They were as tall as the eve on our house But didn't bear hardly any fruit I wanted to top out the plants at 4 ft But my wife said leave it alone we got busy taking care of the grandkids & 4 weeks later they were taller than me & I'm 6 ft 3 this year hopefully will be better
This year add more phosphorus. Be careful what you fertilize with. Too much nitrogen will cause them to grow tall and leafy with no fruit. I recommend Bone Meal for the phosphorus (organic). If you prefer something else look at Rock Phosphorus
Great video, Hollis! I added some Black Kow to a new okra bed this spring and it is doing quite well. With all the pots you have to fill, have you tried mixing your soil on a tarp instead of in the wheel barrow? You can at least triple the quantity and lift up the edges of the tarp alternately to mix it. Just a thought...
Thanks! Been doing this since the potato container video. Great results!!!
I love watching your channel very useful and easy to follow thanks
I'm SO excited to be growing a small container veggie garden on my back deck this year!!! It's my first time growing anything, so wish me luck! lol (I'll be using your methods mostly...so i've been watching your videos and taking notes...lol) God Bless!
I watch this video this morning as that is what I'm doing today So thanks for the information I would have forgotten to add the perlight
Man, I sure do need one of those outdoor grow tables!
Love everything you both are doing. I learned a lot from you both. Thank you both so much 💕💕
Great video, very helpful and concise. Thank you!
I'm learning so much binging on all your videos! Thank you so much - you're a great teacher!
Hollis your videos are easy to understand and very informitive so disreguard the nay sayers and keep doing things your way your garden always looks great and you bring in a great harvest on most things...some flops due to climate conditions are bound to happen from time to time
But we learn from those things we dont submit to those things thats part of gardening from season to season
Thankyou for sharing your wealth of knoledge with a younger generation who needs to know these things to keep growing their own food
Im so glad that you always praise God because God does make everything possible for us and God sends good men and women to teach others to insure a better future
May you and nancy always be blessed with great health and prosperity you certainly deserve it..
Thank you for this simple potting mix recipe. I needed this.
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Your video is GREAT! Cute opening, thorough demonstration, not too long! (edit: ... and what an awesome ending!)
Glad you liked it!
Good video. Smart choice of materials. Thanks for posting.
I scored a free cement mixer recently to mix my blend with
@d.b.Sorenson, That's a great idea! I never thought of that! Thanks for sharing that tip!
Thanks Hollis going to start using this for our containers. Also made one of your raised beds and will be getting the soil mixture in it soon and start planting.
I love this channel and your faith!!!!! Thank you!!!
You are so welcome
Thankbyou you for.deciphering the difference between container mix and potting soil.. there seems to be some lack of concern in many other videos.. to add to other comments,, Fish is a great additive to a garden. May God bless!
Keep up 👍 job you both are doing. Thank you so much 💕💕
God bless you both 💕💕
this video is very helpful God bless, im learning how to garden and your videos are wonderful!
Thanks Hollis and Nancy.
I know this is right, my container mix us compacted. So many people say different things.But, from experience I know this is right on! I'VE LEARNED ALOT FROM TRIAL AND ERROR!! EXPENSIVE, BUT, IT'LL PAY OFF.
Thank you God bless you and Nancy
I would like to say thank you both and Bing too! Enjoy all your videos.
Glory Be to Jesus.
Peace from 10A!
You sure got dark pretty fast working in that Florida sun! Love ur vids I learned a lot!
Hi guys, I really love your videos. Would you please make a video on how to re-use your container soil? Thanks!
I love what you have there that's my ambition you start epic looks great and you always have good results so is right I been struggling to have it right with Florida weather even when I am north I been learning a lot thank you
We use similar methods of making our poting mix except it is soilless. Instead of potting mix, we use compost and we sift everything with the added vermiculite, perlite, bone meal, blood meal, kelp meal, and worm castings.
Thanks for sharing.
What kind of compost?
@@adriankap2978 we do hot compost. cold compost and vermicompost
Thank you Brother 🙏🏾. May GOD continue to Bless you and your Family.
Same to you!
Great instructional video on making container soil. Thank you.
Used this mix...1st time i have been successful with my tomatoes.ty.
this is exactly what i was looking for! going to plant 20+ tomato plants in containers this year and buying the premixed stuff seems really expensive for all that
This is exactly how I've been making my potting mix, with the perlite and all. Good stuff. I've grown some very nice veggies in 5 gallon buckets with this stuff. I like to mix a little blood meal in as well. I also make my own fish emulsion to fertilize with.
Do you add bone meal as well? Any other amendments?
@@dannypalma8159 I usually add specific nutrients according to what I am planting. You can also add Garden Tone which is an even mixture. Can't go wrong with that stuff.
Good morning My first year doing garden Love to watch u and your wife vlog Great tips for all gardeners Love from Idaho ❤️👋
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almost the exact mix i use, good stuff
Thank you so much. So soothing. Simplicity.
You are so welcome!
Great video Hollis! Thanks for posting! God bless!
Thank you, Hollis, for a very good video. Clear and simple
So glad I came across your video. We just recently moved and the ground here is all rock. We have obtained a lot of large tubs for planting until we can get a good garden bed going over the next few years. However, the cost of potting soil was really discouraging us this year. Your video has given me hope again that we just may be able to afford filling these containers and getting going with our garden finally. Thanks
How many 5 gallon buckets do you get out of this mix? Also, I LOVE your videos
Thank you for this! I have been using a similar mix to this this year, prepping my flowerbeds raised beds containers.
I came across your video and found it most informative as to home made container soil. I would like to ask i you have a past video on how to amend yard soil, as my back yard soil has the consistency of dry clay. Thank you for any help you may be able to provide me on how to help me amend my soil. I am looking forward to view your past views. May you and your wife be Healthy and Safe during these times we live in.
I recommend turning in Black Kow with dry oak leaves. Any left over green vegetables leaves are great too. Our soil in Virginia was clay, it took me about 3 years to get it right but it improved each year
Thank you for sharing this video!
thank u...for showing how to prepare your pot. ..am a newbie in gardening and love it....stress free..
Thank you for showing this video.
God bless you both...
Our pleasure!
This is actually real good. Thank you. Peace
Thank you so much for this video! It will be a great help to me.
Please tell your viewers not to use miracle grow potting soil with added fertilizer. One of my little dogs was playing with a pot if soil and would nibble on it occasionally. A few months later ahe developed severe gall bladder complications. My veterinarian told me that it contains glyphosates. Sadly little Gracie is no longer with us. I hope this will help others to avoid the same outcome.
according to ScottsMiracle-Gro, as of 2018 they no longer use glyphosate in the brands they carry.
Thank you for the recipe and prayer
You are so welcome
I love your channel. Can’t wait to see more progression videos!! Where do you get those heavy 3 gallon pots?
Getting my beds started thank you for this.
I would say "pre-moisten" is VERY important to remember, and easy to forget when in a hurry. From personal experience forgetting to pre-moisten can be a set up for disaster (especially with a seed starting mixture). Peat takes time to soak up water but when it does it will help those plants thrive.
I planted a banana plant, Moringa, mango and pineapple all on Florida soil. With a bit of bone meal and potash for my bananas and everything is thriving!
Very nice!
Thank you so much. This year we are in the process of making our very own containers. I needed to see this in order to know what soils needed. God bless
Best of luck to you with your garden this spring ❤️❤️❤️
Your videos are so informational and helpful. Thank you guys so very much!
Thank you, mine looks great🤗
Great job I will try this be blessed
Hello Hollis & Nancy I miss y’all.
That’s very sweet. Thank you ❤️. Are you not seeing our videos on your feed?
Thank you very much. I'm ready for fall planting. If my 1st attempt is only partially as nice as yours and Nancy's I'll consider that a success. Take care.
Blessings
Amen Brother and Sister. Love you all ❤️
Hollis, I do your mix, it is great. I do mix it differently. I use a concrete mixer I purchased from Lowe’s. I have major back and pelvis issues and the mixer works great. If you want to see reply to me.
Would you like to share which one?
Sounds great!
I will post a video to you over the weekend. We will be doing some soil amendment. Have a great week.
Mine is from Harbor Freight; best gardening tool I ever bought!!
Great idea. I am a 73 year old woman gardening and any tips that keep me gardening are a big help. Thank you!! Happy gardening!
I am new to growing anything, so I’m starting small. I have a few transplants (4 iceberg lettuce, 6 broccoli) to put into lettuce individual 5 gallon buckets. If I buy commercial container potting mix, do I still need to add peat moss, vermiculite, manure, blood meal? Or does the store bought mix have everything? I’m getting lost in bingeing on all these videos.
Thank you so much Hollis and Nancy!!! I love your channel! Can’t wait until my garden is big enough to need to make my own mix!
All that should be in the mix already. BUT look for a mix that has fertilizer already in it. Miracle Grow and some other brands have fertilizer in it. The bag should say something about how long their fertilizer will last. Usually six months. When I made my mix I would just use peat moss, vermiculite and perlite. But vermiculite has been very hard to find in any stores for me. It is very expensive to purchase also. Happy gardening and don't get discouraged if you hit a few failures. Happens to the best of us. Just keep at it!
@@juneramirez8580 thank you so much for replying! I had given up on gardening for a long time, but just recently I decided that I wanted to try again. Your reply comes at such a perfect time! Also, thank you for letting me know that fertilizer has an expiration. I probably would have just used the old soil I bought a couple of years ago… 😅
Thank you! Love the set up, information and the cute dog.🙂