Containers & Potting Mix | Indoor Plants And Balcony Gardens | Gardening Australia

The Great Indoors Part 1 - Containers & Potting Mix Over a series of videos, guest presenter and furniture designer Craig Miller-Randle will cover everything you need to know about successfully growing plants indoors. In this first episode he starts with the basics - pots and potting mix. Craig lives in an apartment in the Melbourne inner-city suburb of Richmond, so having a ‘garden’ indoors is a good option. He doesn’t know how many plants he has in his home but there is barely any surface, wall or airspace that isn’t filled with leafy goodness. Indoor plants are totally reliant on you for their nutrients, water and health, which is why Craig always starts with a premium potting mix that meets Australian standards. 02:44 | Potting Mix Craig makes up his own mix depending on the type of plant: 02:59 | 1. Standard potting mix combined with 20% perlite. “I use this for the biggest range of plants.” 03:33 | 2. Pre-mixed succulent mix (for desert plants like