JesseInCT said:I like to amend my soil with a course sand like this-It's cheap and easy to find.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Qu...
I just use the grit as a top dressing, personally. .
As I read through the posts on soil mixes, I saw that sand will slow drainage and I thought I would not use it until I attended the weekend information/training thing in the spring. I already had some coarse sand like that but have the [perhaps grandiose] idea that I might start making hypertufa troughs in the spring too so who knows where I will use it!
My current mix is something that will never happen again since I was using up some things I had. I used about ⅓ Miracle Grow (without the moisture beads), ⅓ poultry grit, and ⅓ of some cactus potting soil I had left that did NOT have wood chips [EDIT: I meant peat moss!] in it. Then I dumped in some other high grit material I had so I would use it up. The result was very light and I'm currently planting bare root succulents in it (for indoors) and doing some leaf propagation in my small greenhouse with it. I only have about 5 gallons of it left (I made a big wagon full of mix and mixed it up with my hands so it was well combined). So one more this and that wagon-full and my excess will be used up. Then I will see whether it is light enough or if I need to go even lighter. In a pot with good drainage, there is no pooling. It runs right through like it says it should in the forum historical posts.
