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Potting soil when ready to use should be moist enough to be pressed into a ball by the hand, but never so moist as not to crumble to pieces again readily beneath the finger.

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If you live in the city, where it is difficult to obtain and to handle the several materials needed to make your own soil/[tag], the best way is to get your soil ready mixed at the florists, as a bushel will fill numerous pots. If you prefer to mix it yourself, or to add any […]

If the soil is wanted at once, and no rotted sod is to be had, use good garden loam, preferably from some spot which was under clover-sod the year before. If it is difficult to obtain well-rotted manure, old chip-dirt from under the wood pile, or the bottom of the woodshed if it has a […]