Potting Mix

[Jersey Devil]

I have potted years past up to 90 plants in the spring. I love crowded spaces, like a Linus security blanket. But I mix compost with potting mix and a few other items, and I reuse last years mix at a 50 percent mixture with new stuff also at 50%. But potting mix is for some reason getting very expensive. New compost is not a problem, but to mix in an equal part of potting mix is becoming a finacial burden with the amount I use. Not that its a problem, but it just seems stupid to pay at least $10 to $15 per cubic foot. Even peat moss is pricey for making my own mix. So I need suggestions as to what other people do for potting mix. Maybe just the area of my country that makes it so expensive. But every year it gets worse, so I was just wondering if there was an alternative for me

 

[Anniekay]

I get Kellog brand. I's 10 bucks for 2cubic feet and mix it with perlite and seed starter mix, or, put the seed starter mix just in the top inch and the potting soil/ perlite mix in the bottom. I figure that once they sprout in the seed starter they can put their roots down in soil with a little nutrition in it.

I don't buy peat moss. Once it dries, and it dries quickly in heat, it takes too much water to get it moist again.

 

[Jersey Devil]

I get Kellog brand. I's 10 bucks for 2cubic feet and mix it with perlite and seed starter mix, or, put the seed starter mix just in the top inch and the potting soil/ perlite mix in the bottom. I figure that once they sprout in the seed starter they can put their roots down in soil with a little nutrition in it.

I don't buy peat moss. Once it dries, and it dries quickly in heat, it takes too much water to get it moist again.

Is the Kellog brand a potting "mix" or potting "soil"? And where do you get it from ?

 

[Anniekay]

Is the Kellog brand a potting "mix" or potting "soil"? And where do you get it from ?

My Home Depot sells it and they have it in different mixes: potting soil, raised bed soil, in ground garden soil for bushes, etc.