Potting Soil for Growing Mountain Laurels

Series Summary

Gardening can be a fun and aesthetically pleasing way to help integrate your home with its surrounding environment. Using native and exotic plants, you can create a landscape that compliments your backyard and adds a sense of new life and freshness to your everyday routine. And no matter what climate you may live in, garden greenery is good for the environment, gets you outside and moving about, and teaches you just a little bit about life. So everyone get out your green thumbs. In this free beginner gardening video series, get tips, advice, ideas and help for easy planting and fertilizing of your background garden. Learn how to put the right plant in the right spot, how deep to dig the hole and bury the roots, how to water properly, using a stake for plant stem support, what garden tools and equipment to use, and more. Our expert horticulturalist will give you a general course in creating the right environment for your new plants to flourish. Take notes, and then create the garden of your dreams.

Video Transcript

"When we plant these mountain laurel seeds we have a choice of what kind of potting soil we're going to use. They make a premium grade which has no soil in it. It has peat moss and composted plant matter and it is quite highly organic. There is no dirt in this no sand, no soil. There is a cheaper variety which actually has sand or soil in it sometimes a lot of sand. This stuff can become compacted and it doesn't absorb water and it doesn't hold water like the pure organic does. So I would rather especially in the area that I'm going to be germinating these seeds, use the premium grade because of the moisture holding capacity."