{"id":930,"date":"2018-04-14T14:45:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T12:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/?p=930"},"modified":"2021-02-27T05:15:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T04:15:22","slug":"where-can-i-get-good-soil-for-my-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/woher-bekomme-ich-gute-erde-fuer-meinen-balkon\/","title":{"rendered":"Whe\u00adre can I get good soil for my bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buy good soil yours\u00adelf<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you buy the plant sub\u00adstra\u00adte from a DIY store, gar\u00adden cen\u00adter or online, you should con\u00adsider what you need it for. The\u00adre are Spe\u00adcial soil for seed\u00adlings. <\/strong>This is low in nut\u00adri\u00adents, fine-grai\u00adned and loo\u00adse so that the seeds have opti\u00admum con\u00addi\u00adti\u00adons for start\u00ading. For gro\u00adwing vege\u00adta\u00adbles, we need the nut\u00adri\u00adent-rich, coar\u00adser soil. Vege\u00adta\u00adble soil<\/strong>. Medi\u00adter\u00adra\u00adne\u00adan herbs in par\u00adti\u00adcu\u00adlar have spe\u00adcial soil requi\u00adre\u00adments. And often pre\u00adfer san\u00addy and cal\u00adcare\u00adous soils, but the extra Her\u00adbal soil<\/strong> use. I do wit\u00adhout the cheap pot\u00adting soil<\/strong> as things stand today, becau\u00adse tests have shown that it often con\u00adta\u00adins hea\u00advy metals. This soil is also often hea\u00adted to such a high tem\u00adpe\u00adra\u00adtu\u00adre that it hard\u00adly con\u00adta\u00adins any micro\u00ador\u00adga\u00adnisms. It is worth spen\u00adding a litt\u00adle more money on good orga\u00adnic qua\u00adli\u00adty soil from a brand manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adrer. We want to eat our home-grown fruit, vege\u00adta\u00adbles and herbs with appe\u00adti\u00adte. To do this, we need to be sure that the soil does not con\u00adtain any harmful sub\u00ads\u00adtances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also don\u2019t buy soil that Peat<\/strong> con\u00adta\u00adins. It can take up to 1000 years for one meter of peat to form in the uni\u00adque bog habi\u00adtat. In Ger\u00adma\u00adny alo\u00adne, around ten mil\u00adli\u00adon cubic meters of peat are used for hor\u00adti\u00adcul\u00adtu\u00adre every year. As peat\u00adlands dis\u00adap\u00adpear, so do the ani\u00admal and plant spe\u00adci\u00ades that spe\u00adcia\u00adli\u00adze in them. When the peat is remo\u00adved, lar\u00adge quan\u00adti\u00adties of car\u00adbon dioxi\u00adde and nitrous oxi\u00adde are released, which is not good for our cli\u00adma\u00adte. Make sure you check the decla\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon on the soil bag that the soil is peat-free. BUND has pro\u00addu\u00adced a buy\u00ading gui\u00adde: Pot\u00adting soil wit\u00adhout peat<\/strong><\/a>. Vege\u00adta\u00adble soils can also be found the\u00adre. Orga\u00adnic soils can also con\u00adtain peat. Look out for the label \u201cPeat-free\u201d or \u201cDoes not con\u00adtain peat\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gute<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To avo\u00adid buy\u00ading too much or too litt\u00adle soil, you should brief\u00adly esti\u00adma\u00adte how much soil you need befo\u00adre going to the DIY store or gar\u00adden cen\u00adter. Around 12 liters of soil are nee\u00added for a 40-cen\u00adti\u00adme\u00adter-long bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny box. Accor\u00addin\u00adgly, you can expect to need around 30 liters for a one-meter-long box. For a flower pot with a dia\u00adme\u00adter of 46 cen\u00adti\u00adme\u00adt\u00adres, you can plan on around 40 liters of soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mixing good soil for the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny yours\u00adelf<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It has beco\u00adme so com\u00admon to buy rea\u00addy-made pot\u00adting soil, alt\u00adhough this purcha\u00adsed pot\u00adting soil is basi\u00adcal\u00adly only desi\u00adgned for one sea\u00adson, con\u00adta\u00adins nut\u00adri\u00adents for one sea\u00adson, remains sta\u00adble, stores water well and is air-per\u00admeable. It is finer to mix your own pot\u00adting soil from various com\u00adpon\u00adents. A simp\u00adle mix\u00adtu\u00adre is 5 parts gar\u00adden soil from an orga\u00adni\u00adcal\u00adly cul\u00adti\u00adva\u00adted gar\u00adden, 2 parts matu\u00adre com\u00adpost, 1 part sand.<\/strong> If the gar\u00adden soil is less loamy and more san\u00addy, do not mix in extra sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For gro\u00adwing in boxes, the gar\u00addening book aut\u00adhor recom\u00admends Andrea Heis\u00adtin\u00adger<\/a> in coope\u00adra\u00adti\u00adon with Noah\u2019s Ark<\/a> a mix\u00adtu\u00adre of 65 % gar\u00adden soil, 15 % ear\u00adthworm com\u00adpost and 20 % pumice<\/strong> (porous vol\u00adca\u00adnic rock).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Beste
Read about the best fer\u00adti\u00adli\u00adzer for the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny \u2014 worm humus from the worm bin here<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Refres\u00adhing the soil for the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny ins\u00adtead of buy\u00ading new<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In spring, you should defi\u00adni\u00adte\u00adly give your plants a refresh\u00adment of the soil. The\u00adre is an argu\u00adment that if you con\u00adti\u00adnue to use last year\u2019s sub\u00adstra\u00adte, you run the risk of dise\u00ada\u00adses or pests that have nes\u00adted in the soil in the pre\u00advious sea\u00adson being trans\u00adfer\u00adred to the new plants. The other view is that the purcha\u00adsed sub\u00adstra\u00adte is used up, that it no lon\u00adger con\u00adta\u00adins any nut\u00adri\u00adents, at most for let\u00adtuce, and that the soil must the\u00adr\u00ade\u00adfo\u00adre be com\u00adple\u00adte\u00adly repla\u00adced. I am not of the opi\u00adni\u00adon that we need to buy new soil for all our plan\u00adters every spring. But we defi\u00adni\u00adte\u00adly need to enrich the soil with nut\u00adri\u00adents and loo\u00adsen it a litt\u00adle. Good soil has the hig\u00adhest pos\u00adsi\u00adble Humus con\u00adtent<\/strong>so that the nut\u00adri\u00adents are stored and the soil is well aer\u00adated. We can fres\u00adhen up the soil, for exam\u00adp\u00adle, by adding 10 % worm humus from the worm bin. For hea\u00advy eaters such as toma\u00adtoes, 15 % worm humus can also be mixed in or sprink\u00adled on top of the plant pots \u2014 but in wet wea\u00adther wit\u00adhout sun\u00adlight so that the fine micro\u00ador\u00adga\u00adnisms sur\u00advi\u00adve. You can even buy worm humus in dif\u00adfe\u00adrent pack sizes in my health food store. You can also mix 1\/3 com\u00adpost with the old soil from the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny box. Every gar\u00adde\u00adner has their own spe\u00adcial reci\u00adpe. Try it out here too. Read more about this: 5 ways to get strength into old bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny box soil. <\/a>For bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny gar\u00adden\u00aders, I recom\u00admend sus\u00adtainable worm humus, which can be made from your orga\u00adnic was\u00adte. You can read about my 5 years of expe\u00adri\u00adence Best fer\u00adti\u00adli\u00adzer for the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny. Worm humus from the worm bin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gute<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

How do you deal with the old soil from the bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny boxes? What reci\u00adpe do you have? It would be nice to exch\u00adan\u00adge ide\u00adas so that we can all learn some\u00adthing and the soil does\u00adn\u2019t end up in the orga\u00adnic was\u00adte after a sea\u00adson.<\/h2>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good soil for bal\u00adc\u00ado\u00adny boxes can eit\u00adher be bought as a rea\u00addy-mixed peat-free orga\u00adnic sub\u00adstra\u00adte (orga\u00adnic vege\u00adta\u00adble soil or pot\u00adting soil) or you can mix your own pot\u00adting soil from various com\u00adpon\u00adents.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[991,143,47,186],"tags":[1022,1023,77],"class_list":["post-930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-effektive-mikroorganismen","category-gemuese","category-grundlagen-besonders-fuer-einsteiger","tag-ernteglueck","tag-grundlagen","tag-selbstversorgung"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bio-balkon.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}