Compressed Organic Potting Soil for Garden, Plants & Vegetables - Expands 4x When Mixed with Water - Indoor or Outdoor Use - Plant Food Mix Derived from Natural Coconut Coir & Worm Castings Fertilizer

Yes this stuff is expensive. This is not the soil to purchase for a large planter or anything in your vegetable garden. For starters this is NOT a “mix”, for most plants you are going to want a mix that drains much quicker than this. What I’ve found this IS good for - seed starting, propagations, and my indoor turmeric and ginger plants. I love that I can start my seeds and I don’t have to worry about quickly transplanting them because of nutrient deficiency. The worm castings carry those little babies all the way to the garden bed. The moisture retention is just enough to keep my fig cuttings moist without rotting the stem. And my ginger and turmeric are absolutely loving it

I have a raised organic composting planting bed. As it composts, the volume shrinks a little. It was time for me to add soil to what I had there. I saw this, and being 75 years of age and weighing just over 100 lbs, the thought of lugging a bunch of soil from the car to the bed wasn't one I was looking forward to, so I read further. It was a little hard to believe, but I decided to try it. It's nice to find a product that does exactly what it says it will. Two little bags of this soil plumped up to many inches of soil in my planting bed, and my veggies seem to be loving it. While it costs more than regular potting mix, it's not as much as you think because of the huge amount of soil it produces. I like it enough to say that from this point on, it's the only soil I'll be using in my veggie garden.

I am growing Microclover in trays and ended up using four different types of potting soil. My seedlings germinated a day earlier and the plants are growing a little faster in this soil. Also, this soil seems to stay moist a little bit longer.

A while ago, I bought a bag of this compressed soil, put it away, and forgot about it. Recently, I found the bag and decided to hydrate it as an additive for the potting soil I use to help keep the soil from compacting. I grow almost all of our veggies in our basement, and use quite a bit of soil. Since I have been growing our veggies for over 5 years, and pots of older plants have been dumped on our 5-acre property, it has caused problems with piles of accumulation of the root filled soil and deteriorating vegetation. Since then, we have had most of the debris hauled away and I had to find a solution to prevent this problem from happening again. I had to figure out a way to reuse the soil from old and depleted plants. I use FoxFarm potting soils which is an excellent blend for potting soil, but it has been sterilized to eliminate bacteria, organisms, etc. When we grow veggies and other plants outdoors, we don't have to worry about the breakdown of roots or plant material from other plants. The microorganisms that are naturally in the soil break these down for use as nutrients for future plants. Although this compressed soil is much too expensive for me to use as soil for the volume of plants I grow, I decided to try it as an additive to my potting soil to add natural bacteria to soil I reuse. The first bag I bought, I poured into a 5 gallon bucket and 1/2 filled the bucket with water. Well, this turned out to be a 1/2 bucket of muck. So, I ordered another bag, and added this to the bucket. This worked well, and the result was 1/2 5 gallon bucked of hydrated soil additive that will encourage natural microbial growth in the soil. So far, my plan seems to be working. The mycorrhizae in this compressed soil is a root fungus that has a beneficial, or symbiotic relationship between a fungus and the roots of its host plant. This relationship is a natural infection of a plant’s root system in which the plant supplies the fungus with sugars and carbon and receives water and/or nutrients in return. This relationship expands the plants' root systems, increases nutrient and water uptake, and helps to prevent soil-borne diseases from propagating in your soil. The soil in my plants is not compacting and reusing the soil is working. When using this soil as an additive, you don't have to use a lot. The microbes will reproduce in the soil it is added to, and it doesn't require much of this to reduce compaction of the soil. So far, I like this compressed soil as an additive, but it is much too expensive to be used exclusively if you grow a lot of plants. I hope this review was helpful for you.

This was very very helpful to me …im 87 years young now and need all the help I can get !👍

This doesn’t expand that much. It is nice but I thought it was expensive for what it is

That this is an excellent product and it does what it says it's going to do, with water the potting soil expanded and I had enough to add to all my plants

Excellent! The water retention is great my 🪴 looks beautiful