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LAST SPRING WAS THE LAST STRAW.

For any of you who have accrued as much bile over the lamentable quality of (at least, locally) commercial Japanese potting soils as I have, you might want to try something I'm doing this year: take things into your own hands and make your own potting soil. Good recipes for all kinds of potting soil needs at BackyardGardener.

SIMPLE seed starter soil:

4 parts peat
2 parts vermiculite
2 parts perlite

Now all I have to do is find peat.