soil Sandy Soils

Voodoo 6

• Jan 21, 2018

• #1

https://www.grow-it-organically.com/gardening-in-sandy-soil.html
 
found a neat little article about growing in sandy soils, hope someone can use it. Cheers!

 

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Chilidude

• Jan 22, 2018

• #2

Great article, coco seems to be universal stuff for almost everything, when combined with other materials and way better choice that peat, because it doest damage wet lands like peat production does. Peat may cost way less than coco, but if you dont need that much, maybe try coco for more environmentally friendly choice.

 

Dr.Peppar

• Jan 22, 2018

• #3

You an grow some great peppers in FL sandy soils if you work the top a good bit with even just some horse manure. But in pots sand of any amount is like my worst enemy. Its weight alone just sucks. And eventually the plants eat everything but the heavy ass sand. Eventually after some you have big 400lb pots of sand even if you dont add more to them after the first year LOL.

 

Chorizo857_62J

• Jan 22, 2018

• #4

The less sand, the better.  Perlite and vermiculite are helpful, with peat moss, cow manure, or the en vogue coco husk.  I have only recently used the coco hust for seed germination, with great results.