2nd year balcony container garden - Do I need all new soil??

[isabelbrinck]

Coir is also more ecologically friendly, says my Container Gardening book by Stuart Robertson. It is used to replace peat. Apparently peat is very difficult to obtain, takes a long time for all its components to decompose, etc.

He also says 50% new soil each year, btw.

[Smitty]

thanks ladies I will look for it

[evepet]

Thanks for the info everyone.

I see compressed coir (Natura brand) is available at Home Hardware. They also have bags of worm castings which sounds like a good idea too?

Would a 50/50% coir/worm castings mixture be good..... then mixed in to with the old soil, approximately 50/50 ratio again?


Thanks!

[bluewillow]

...and I get confused between peat moss and spag.

bw

[Smitty]

sounds good to me eve.

[evepet]

Okey-dokey. That sounds like a plan. Thanks again to everyone for your help.