Create your own seed and potting compost at home whilst you are on lockdown
The easiest compost to create a home is John Innes Compost for seedlings and young plants. John Innes Compost is a soil based compost and although it’s not possible to create it to the standard a manufacture will make it to its possible to come up with a workable compost for growing seedling and young plants.
Based on soil or loam which is soil with lot of fibrous matter such as well rotted turf.
Here is the receipt for creating some John Innes Compost
John Innes seed compost: In the following loam is sterilised and peat and loam are passed through 9mm sieve.
John Innes Compost for Cuttings:
2 parts loam, 1 part peat or garden compost, 1 part sand
0.6kg ground limestone per cubic metre of mix.
1.2kg superphosphate per 1 cubic metre of mix.
John Innes Compost number 1 for young plants
Add the following to cubic metre of mix
0.6kg ground limestone,
1.2kg hoof and horn,
1.2kg superphosphate,
0.6 kg potassium sulphate.
Create your own seed and potting compost at home whilst you are on lockdown
Follow this link for some more information follow this link
https://gardenadvice.co.uk/blog/why-we-recommend-john-innes-composts-so-often/