Food for Today
On 3/19/2021 1:00 AM, US Janet wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 23:50:02 -0400, Michael >
> wrote:
>
>> On 3/18/2021 12:32 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>>> On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 US Janet wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I originally went to Costco to pick up 4 bags of potting soil for $9
>>>> each but they were all sold out. Apparently you need to get to the
>>>> store when it first opens to get the potting soil. I guess a lot of
>>>> people are getting into gardening these days. Another shipment is at
>>>> the warehouse in Salt Lake and should be at the store by today or
>>>> tomorrow.
>>>> I just phoned Costco and the potting soil is in. Off to Costco!
>>>
>>> It's very easy to make your own potting soil, better quality and costs
>>> less. Buy a bale of peat moss and a bale of sterilized compost. Mix
>>> them together as needed and in a proportion you like. Be sure to buy
>>> sterilized compost as any weed seeds it contains will have been cooked
>>> dead. If you decide to buy Costco's potting soil be certain it's
>>> sterilized or you will have a ton of weeds.
>>
>> I thought that I was nuts when I had weeds growing from pots and I
>> suspected it was in the potting soil. I figured a commercial product
>> like bagged potting soil would be free seeds and the like... guess not.
>
> If you had weeds in a pot that you were growing indoors, then yes, the
> potting soil had not been sterilized. Outdoors however, the air is
> full of seeds. The wind can blow them in from several states away.
> Most probably the weeds are from something that recently bloomed
> nearby.
> Janet US
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