How to prepare your own substrate for seedlings from autumn

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If you prepare such a substrate, you you will not have to buy a new one in the spring and a priori it is not too cheap. You can save money. Own soil for seedlings is prepared on the basis of compost.

How to do

You need to take an ordinary plastic box. Fruits and vegetables are mostly sold here. It will be the sieve through which the compost must be sifted.

Now we move on to the next ingredients. Add 10% fine sand and 15% fine vermiculite to the compost. Treat everything with a solution with a hay stick. In this way, the risk of pathogen development will be neutralized. Mix the mixture thoroughly.

Pour the finished substrate into bags. Put them for the winter in a cellar or basement, where you have room, a pantry. In the spring, it will need to be thawed, poured again with a hay stick, and it can be used for seedlings.