Most trusted proven potting soil recipe for vegetables, simple and no frills

After we moved to a new house, I wanted to create the perfect garden and vegetable garden. To keep everything simple, beautiful and practical. But for this you need to study a lot and apply the experience that our parents and grandparents who lived in private houses pass on to us.

So from my mother I got a recipe for potting soil, which she always made for seedlings in one way. Of course, modern life has forced him to modify a little. The fact is that in my mother's recipe for soil for seedlings, well-rotted humus was present. Manure and humus are now becoming too expensive a luxury.

And I replaced it with purchased seedling soil, which is just as loose and can serve as light humus.

But everything is in order. Here is the composition of the mixture that allows me to grow strong seedlings without additional feeding:

· The earth is from the cucumber ridge, because it is there that it is manured, light and freshest. And since I grow for seedlings, mainly flowers, tomatoes, peppers and cabbage, the causative agents of the cucumber disease, if they remain in the soil, are not afraid of them.

· Small river sand.

· Purchased soil soil.

· Ash.

· Superphosphate.

That's the whole composition. Completely simple, without unnecessary components and unnecessary additions, which are often useless and spread over the Internet, like a desire to stand out and show yourself as a skillful gardener.

The proportions are as follows: I have a 15-liter basin, in which it is very convenient to mix all the soil elements. On it I take 2 liters of sand (a bucket of mayonnaise), 5 liters of purchased soil, a glass of ash, half a glass of superphosphate. The rest is earth. I thoroughly grind all this and mix it with my hands, getting a fluffy, airy, very fertile soil for seedlings.

I sprinkle the soil into juice cups, which I put in boxes in 3 rows. In them I grow seedlings. This soil does not require plant nutrition almost until the very transfer to the soil. Of course, if the weather forces you to keep the seedlings in glasses for a long time, then large specimens will have to be fed so that the plants for transplantation are not depleted.

I prepare such a soil, it is simple and tested by several generations of our family.