Today, alas, not every one of us, representatives of the gardening "caste", has the opportunity to independently prepare the soil mixture for seedlings.

Therefore, many relieve themselves of unnecessary headaches by purchasing ready-mixed soil in specialized stores or from other farmers.

You just need to take into account that not all ready-made mixtures for growing seedlings fully meet the requirements of certain crops that you are going to grow. Especially when it comes to universal soil mixes.

Improving the soil mix

Experienced gardeners and gardeners know that peat is the basic ingredient in a universal soil mix. And peat has a lot of minuses, including high acidity and low permeability. All this negatively affects the plants, which demonstrate weak development and a significant lag in growth.

Good advice: do not sift the components of the soil mixture through a sieve so that after irrigation the substrate does not turn into a “swamp”

Therefore, they often try to improve the universal mixture. And in this case, there are several common principles of action.

Video: How to prepare the soil for seedlings

Firstly, the universal soil mixture purchased at the store can be mixed in equal parts with disinfected soil from your garden. If there is none, then you can use other components - the earth from pots and containers with irreparably withered indoor crops or unused soil for home flowers.

Lower kilotownnost

You can lower the acidity of universal soil with chalk or dolomite flour. Calculation - 2 tablespoons per bucket of soil.

Hydrogel crystals can be widely used in gardening practice.

In addition, you can affect the moisture level of the purchased substrate by adding hydrogel crystals (sold in specialized stores). Just act in this case carefully and consciously, realizing that in a humid environment, the size of the crystals can increase three hundred times. Therefore, if you add them to the soil, then the maximum dosage!