What is potting soil?

Garden, pot- or bedding plant... The garden fancier used to do it with the soil that happened to be in the garden. There was just no more choice. Fortunately, the enthusiastic gardener of nowadays has more possibilities. At garden centres, builder's merchants and supermarkets there are several potting soils for sale. At this it's about potting soil as well as gardensoil. Garden soil is a soil supply for use in the garden.

Potting soil is a collective name for various kinds of soil with each their own composition and specific structure, especially for plants in pots and flower boxes. Potting soil is light in weight, unlike for example the heavier dark garden soil.

A separate potting soil for every use
In order to get healthy, strong plants, the potting soil has to satisfy the special needs of the plant. In addition to a good soil structure, there are for example also certain nutrients and lime necessary, to let the plant grow and develop. Nitrogen for example, is necessary for the growth of a plant and iron is necessary for the production of the leafs and the flowering. These two examples are some of the chemical requirements which are drawn up for a potting soil with the RHP Consumer quality mark. On the basis of extensive research, the potting soil producers succeeded in developing a high-quality potting soil for nearly every plant, in the past few years. Because the nutrients, the structure and the composition of the soil have exactly been tuned to the use, the garden fancier can expect good results.