Can we talk about how I was watering my new raised bed garden all wrong

I was going through a ton of water until my neighbor in St. Louis pointed out that my soil mix was 70% cheap potting soil, which just dries out and repels water, instead of holding it like a proper blend with compost and topsoil should.

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andrew_shah24d ago

Did you think the soil type mattered that much?

brooke74724d ago

Oh man, that is such a classic rookie mistake. I did the exact same thing with my first planter box, just dumped in whatever cheap bagged stuff was on sale. It turns into this weird, dry brick that water just runs right off of. Fixing the soil mix makes a night and day difference.

the_ben24d ago

Yeah the "dry brick" thing is so real. Did you have to completely replace all the soil or could you mix in compost to fix it?