How to make homemade soil mix?
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Re: How to make homemade soil mix?
How to measure pH of one's potting mix. What pH is required for growing flower nursery from seeds.
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Re: How to make homemade soil mix?
Ans 1) Two parts manure, three parts baalu mitti is best soil mixGreenfinger wrote:I live near Sea view Karachi. I need to know a few things. 1) best soil mix for potted seasonal flowers.2) best mix for flower beds.3) why should the soil be changed every year for pots. 4) frequency for changing flower bed soil
Ans 2) A layer of manure 2-3 inch thick on soil bed and mix by hoeing 6 inch deep in soil
Ans 3) It gets compact and plants roots start rotting in it
Ans 4) No need to change it, just add a layer of manure 2-3 inch thick every 6 months
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Re: How to make homemade soil mix?
Ans 1) By using a calibrated pH meterGreenfinger wrote:How to measure pH of one's potting mix. What pH is required for growing flower nursery from seeds.
Ans 2) 6.5 is the ideal pH for most seasonal flowers
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Re: How to make homemade soil mix?
Thanks. I would to be advised as to pH meters are available.
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Re: How to make homemade soil mix?
Ans 1) By using a calibrated pH meterIzhar wrote:Greenfinger wrote:How to measure pH of one's potting mix. What pH is required for growing flower nursery from seeds.
And where to find it?
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Re: How to make homemade soil mix?
From the shop which sells laboratory equipment... you can check OLX or Bolee.com too..Muhammad Arif Khan wrote:Ans 1) By using a calibrated pH meterIzhar wrote:Greenfinger wrote:How to measure pH of one's potting mix. What pH is required for growing flower nursery from seeds.
And where to find it?
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Re: How to make homemade soil mix?
Sand? This is not ریت that we use in construction i presume. Where can we get it from readily in islamabad apart from nurseries.
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Re: How to make homemade soil mix?
it is the same used in constructionAlam64 wrote:Sand? This is not ریت that we use in construction i presume. Where can we get it from readily in islamabad apart from nurseries.
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Re: How to make homemade soil mix?
Wow didnt know that one. Thanks
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