Homemade Seed Starting Mix: 3 Tested Recipes for Healthy Seedlings
TL;DR: A homemade seed starting mix is a sterile, low-fertility blend of milled peat moss (or coconut coir), perlite, and vermiculite, usually at a 50:25:25 ratio, with a spoonful of ground limestone to buffer pH. It costs a fraction of bagged mix, drains better than garden soil, and cuts damping-off losses by giving pathogens nothing…