{"id":3380,"date":"2020-04-03T11:54:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2020-04-03T11:54:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T10:54:47","slug":"create-your-own-seed-and-potting-compost-at-home-whilst-you-are-on-lockdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/create-your-own-seed-and-potting-compost-at-home-whilst-you-are-on-lockdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Create your own seed and potting compost at home whilst you are on lockdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/potting-compost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3381\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/potting-compost.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe 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&#8217;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.<br \/>\nBased on soil or loam which is soil with lot of fibrous matter such as well rotted turf.<br \/>\nHere is the receipt for creating some John Innes Compost<br \/>\nJohn Innes seed compost: In the following loam is sterilised and peat and loam are passed through 9mm sieve.<br \/>\nJohn Innes Compost for Cuttings:<br \/>\n2 parts loam, 1 part peat or garden compost, 1 part sand<br \/>\n0.6kg ground limestone per cubic metre of mix.<br \/>\n1.2kg superphosphate per 1 cubic metre of mix.<br \/>\nJohn Innes Compost number 1 for young plants<br \/>\nAdd the following to cubic metre of mix<br \/>\n0.6kg ground limestone,<br \/>\n1.2kg hoof and horn,<br \/>\n1.2kg superphosphate,<br \/>\n0.6 kg potassium sulphate.<br \/>\nCreate your own seed and potting compost at home whilst you are on lockdown<br \/>\nFollow this link for some more information follow this link<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/blog\/why-we-recommend-john-innes-composts-so-often\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s not possible to create it to the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/newsandarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}