Coco peat mix for Grow bags

Yes, Using coco peat as potting soil for outdoor pots and grow bags is good enough solution for a light weight roof top garden.

What are the advantages of using Coco peat?

• Uniform soil texture.
• Remember, coco peat as such will have NO nutrient. So you have to mix vermi compost in 50-50 ratio. If needed you can add 10% washed sand along with this.
• Important factor is that Coco peat can retain moisture for a long period of time, moreover it can store up to 8 times the volume.
• Due to its porous nature, it can enable good root growth and health.
• PH level of Coco peat is around 5.7 to 6.5. This sits in the recommended PH values for growing vegetables. You can test the PH using this low cost simple meter.

Now coming to the all important Soil preparation or Soil mix for the Grow bags.

Try the following mixture for better results.

• For each grow bag, Coco peat should be 50% of the soil.
• Next 30% should be a well prepared Vermicompost.
• Try to get red soil from a nursery and mix only 10% of the Coco peat.
• Remaining 10% should have the mix of Cow dung, neem cake, NPK 19:19:19 mixture and Sand.

You can buy Coco Peat 5kg block online here.

Try it and give your results as comments.