Menards Schultz Potting Soil (2024)

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Is Schultz potting soil good? ›

Perfect for indoor and outdoor plants, it feeds for up to nine months and grows bigger plants with more blooms compared to ordinary planting soil without fertilizer. It is great for indoor houseplants, outdoor containers, pots, bowls, hanging baskets, window boxes and planters.

Potting mix is meant to stand alone, as opposed to being mixed in with existing soils. It is a self-contained product designed to provide potted plants with everything they need to grow and thrive. Garden soil is meant to be spread around. Mix garden soil in with your native dirt to improve it.

Soil taken from your yard or a garden bed is too dense to use in a pot or raised bed. Instead, for containers, you'll want to use potting mix (also called potting soil), a lightweight and fluffy alternative. For raised beds, you'll want to use a blend of potting mix and garden soil.

Top Shelf^® Indoor Potting Soil is a mix that forms an ideal media for your plants to grow healthy in pots. This product is made with compost, peat moss, perlite, pine bark, bio-char, mycorrhizae, and fertilizer.

In a 5-gallon bucket you can grow: • 1 tomato, pepper or zucchini, or • 3-4 lettuce, or • 1 cabbage or broccoli (with 15 radishes or 8 spinach), or • 15 carrots or beets, or • 6 bulbing onions, garlic or leeks, or • 8 mustards or turnips for greens.

Watering Container-Grown Plants

Water plants that were grown in nursery containers every 3 days for the first 3 weeks after planting. We suggest using a watering wand. After 3 weeks, water only when necessary depending on weekly rainfall amounts. Times of drought will require more frequent waterings.

Potting soil's composition makes it suitable for outdoor plants. On the other hand, a soilless potting mix is a better choice for potted plants or a container garden because it: Offers a good balance of moisture retention and water drainage for potted plants. Provides better aeration.

A bag of potting soil is heavier than a bag of potting mix. Potting mixes do not contain any soil. Potting mixes are used for container planting, especially for orchids, succulents, and cacti that need good drainage. A bag of potting mix is lighter than a bag of potting soil.

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Adding compost or garden soil can be beneficial

Most gardeners make potting soil by combining perlite or vemiculite with peat or sphagnum moss. Two other organic materials that you could add to your potting mix are leaf mold and compost, which offer a wide spectrum of nutrients.

Yet using garden or topsoil in containers often has the opposite effect. Potted plants grown in garden soil typically languish. The main reason this happens is because garden soil is much more dense than media formulated for containers.

Yes, you could use either garden soil or potting soil to grow outdoor plants. However, potting soil is a better choice as a growing medium as it's specifically created to support plant growth. But neither is the right choice for indoor plants or container gardening.

It's a good base and gnat free! I don't think there's a premade soil mix in major production that's perfect for all succulents. Various species have different needs than others. You should only use it as a base that you doctor up according to the plant's needs.

It is important you mix an enriched garden soil into the native soil. Unlike topsoil, Schultz® Enriched Garden Soil for Flowers & Vegetables is made of premium organic ingredients such as composted forest products and sphagnum peat moss.

Potting Mix vs Potting Soil: Which One Should You Use? Potting soil's composition makes it suitable for outdoor plants. On the other hand, a soilless potting mix is a better choice for potted plants or a container garden because it: Offers a good balance of moisture retention and water drainage for potted plants.