Land for indoor plants

For our nutrition we need food and it does not matter whether we are vegetarians or not. And plants need land. As it is not acceptable for a vegetarian to eat animal food, the nutritional components are also important for different representatives of the indoor flora. The benefits of civilization allow you to immediately buy a ready-made mixture for the needs of certain green pets.

The practice of many professionals in gardening has shown and proved the feasibility of preparing the soil themselves. Neutral or slightly alkaline soil is suitable for most plants, both garden and indoor. However, there are plants that cannot do without an alkaline Ph soil mixture, and some may even die without an acidic earth. Pelargonium, cyclamen, begonia, fern, chrysanthemum, fuchsia show themselves better in a slightly acidic environment. Camellia, azalea, hydrangea can die without an acidic substrate. Lily, cineraria, carnation, asparagus can lose their brightness and their flowering without alkaline soil.

Pure acidic soil is represented by clay-sod substance, peat and loam. Chernozem is a neutral soil mixture, very rarely slightly alkaline. Before you buy the constituent elements for the earthen mixture, you need to know more about it in order for young plants to start well, and adults to please with their appearance and flowers, if they are blooming.

Peat

The first component to consider is peat. Soils that can only be purchased ready-made in stores cannot do without it. There are three types of this soil product: transitional, upstream and lowland. To create a more acidic soil, low-lying peat is added, and for an acidic soil mixture, high-moor peat is added.

Peat is so loved by gardeners due to the fact that the result of the combination gives a light and loose soil. This allows the root system to quickly harden and develop well, naturally leads to a healthy plant as a whole. That is why seeds and cuttings of favorite flowers are often grown in such soil. Self-extraction of peat is problematic, it is better to contact the store for this. But before you buy peat, carefully look at what species it belongs to, so that it does not cause the death of beautiful plants.

Sod land

The next type of soil can be prepared by the gardener himself. Sod soil, which is rich in nitrogen, is suitable for plants from the family of cereals or legumes. Land from pastures is also good, especially where cows graze. The layer with plant roots and the ground one finger below the root system of meadow grasses best fits the description of sod soil.

Deciduous land

The third type of soil includes deciduous. This soil is easily harvested, but it also has its own nuances. Linden, maple and hazel are trees, the ground under which is the most suitable for home flowers. But willow and oak, in this sense, destroy the soil with tannins, which these trees emit in huge quantities.

In a more mature, old forest, it does not matter from what depth the soil is taken by the gardener. The top layer is taken only in young deciduous forest. This type of soil is used for rooting cuttings and germinating seeds because of its lightness, sometimes sand can be added.

Humus earth

The fourth type of soil is difficult for a gardener to replenish his reserves. Humus soil is obtained from greenhouse soil, which has been given time to rot in the air. This option is very valuable among gardeners. This type is more common as a natural fertilizer. Vermicompost is a modern substitute for humus soil. However, its real properties show the incompetence of producer firms, and the buyer often receives completely unusable land for his favorite plants.

Compost soil

The fifth type of soil is compost. It is not difficult to get it, but you need to know well the person from whom you are going to take or buy such land. It is unpleasant to plant flowers in poorly rotted compost. Most often, the compost is the leaves and waste of fruits and vegetables in a private house or personal plot.

Coniferous land

The sixth type is coniferous land. Saintpaulia or violet, siningia (gloxinia), azalea and begonia, as they say, do not love her soul. For some gardeners, this soil is the main home for their plants. Others prefer to make mixtures, but they take coniferous soil in a larger ratio.

But it is necessary to prepare such soil carefully. Very often sand becomes a companion of coniferous plantations. That is why, before taking the soil home, you need to take a good look at it and still take the land, and not a mixture of sandstone and pine needles, which will only harm the plants.

Sand

The last on this list of soils used for indoor plants is sand. This component is not essentially earth, but without it, many plants cannot please with their beauty. For those who have just started on the path of gardening, the use of sand seems unnecessary. This is a rash decision. The most common red sand is not used in plant care, as it is very rich in iron. Flowers do not tolerate sea sand even though it was washed five or six times before use. The best is considered to be river sand, which has coarse-grained properties.

After preparing the earthen mixture, it must be steamed. This will protect the plant from uninvited neighbors, in the form of insects and bacteria, as well as numerous seeds belonging to weeds.