October 6, 2022 Hans Leong

5 Tips To Choose Suitable Soil

🌳What is the suitable soil for my plant?

🪵What are the nutrients needed to grow a healthy plant?

Tip 1 : Potassium - Melons Types Vegetables

Potassium is an essential nutrient for plant growth, especially for melon types vegetables such as peppers, eggplants, and okra. So the major tip for melons types vegetables is to choose the soil with a good drainage, and with high potassium such as Vegimix Soil.

🛒Vegimix soil : https://babashop.com.my/products/baba-organic-vegimix

Tip 2 : Peat moss - Flowers, Herbs, Potted Plants, Indoor Plants

Peat moss is good for ventilation & drainage and it is high in organic matter to enhance roots development. These characteristic will remain even after transplant. Safeguard the survival of plants and more obvious effect. Plants are easier to take care, greener leaves, higher blooming rate. If you are looking for soil that have good ventilation and drainage, can choose soil such as Super 10.

🛒Super 10 : https://babashop.com.my/products/baba-super-10-organic-planting-soil-28-liters

Tip 3 : Compost - Foliage Plants

Compost is an organic fertilizer that contains rich nutrients and can to maintain soil’s ability to retain water and fertilizer. For foliar plants such as cabbage, water retention and composting would be the major element in choosing their soil. So you can choose the soil with good water retention and contain compost such as Yasa-i Soil.

🛒Yasa-i soil : https://babashop.com.my/products/baba-yasa-i-vege-soil-28liters

Tip 4 : Perlite - Succulent

Perlite helps to improve soil moisture retention, permeability, acid and alkali resistance. For succulent enthusiasts, you can choose the soil with perlite such as Cacti & Succulent Potting Mix, contains slow release nutrient, which can last up to 6 months without fertilizing.

🛒Cacti & Succulent Potting Mix : https://babashop.com.my/products/cacti-succulent-potting-mix-7-liters

Tip 5 : Active Charcoal - Adenium

Activated carbon is a form of carbon processed to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area available for adsorption. For the adenium lovers, the main key to the choice of soil is the well-drained, ventilated. So, you can use soil with active charcoal such as Baba Adenium Soil.

🛒Adenium Soil : https://babashop.com.my/products/baba-special-adenium-planting-soil-7-litres

Tip 6 : Base Fertilizer - Change Soil

After the harvest, it is necessary to add in compost such as: compost-based fertilizer. Usually it only needs to mix it with the soil when you after harvesting. The compost contains nutrients and rich organic matter.

🛒Compost-based Fertilizer : https://babashop.com.my/products/baba-compost-based-fertilizer-7liters

Reference:

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