Containers & Potting Mix | Indoor Plants And Balcony Gardens | Gardening Australia
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 Pachypodium geayi). “I use this for things that like good drainage. It has extra sand to make it quick drying.”
04:05 | 3. Epiphyte mix; base mix plus 20% perlite and 10% charcoal (which keeps the soil sweet and absorbs impurities). “I use this for things like monstera, epipremnum, philodendron – these are forest floor plants. They need larger particles in their mix.”
05:04 | Containers
If a plant feels tight in a pot its roots have probably filled the pot completely and it needs to be potted up to the next size of pot, plus some fresh soil.
Craig prefers traditional plastic nursery pots that are lightweight and can be washed and reused.
He also cuts down larger pots to make a shallow, wide pot that suits plants such as Maranta (prayer plant).
Featured plants:
Madagascar Palm (Pachypodium geayi)
Swiss Cheese Vine (Monstera adansonii)
Green Velvet Alocasia (Alocasia micholitziana)
Maranta (Maranta leuconeura cv.)
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I have been gardening for a long time and love indoor plants. I thought I knew everything on this subject but learnt 2 specific reasons some of my ferns get to wet. Keep Craig please please please. 🥳
Omg where have you been all my life
You are the BEST absolute best
Only love knows what and how to explain
Please please know YOUR THE BEST OF ALL
LOVE YOU
Craig,thank u for the information shared .GOD-bless!
YESSSS SO GOOD TO SEE CRAIG ON HERE!!!! Great content!!
Very informative video .Thank you
Wonderful to see you present Craig! Your potting mix and care tips have helped all my aroids thrive.
All I see is that Variegated Monstera 🌱😍♥️
Very interesting video… I just love it… Craig has a beautiful space…
This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing all this.
please what is the name of plant in 6:45 ?
So happy to have access to your considerable knowledge, Craig! Could we learn more about which plants prefer squat pots please. I have some treasured squat pots sourced though a cacti group.
I LOVE CRAIG!! SO INSPIRED FROM HIM!!!!!!!
Nice collection do you have bro.
Really I like this types of videos
Love this new segment!!
I love your houseplants, I want to grow like you😍
Ugh that fredek, so pretty!!!!!!
It’s just a tour in heaven !!!
Thanks!
Watching from Victoria!
Thank you Craig xx
Very entertaining, thanks for posting! 🌱🌿🌵
Thank you so much Sir for your easy-to-understand guidance. As a beginner, this is really helpful. Love from Malaysia 🙏♥
nice indoor garden! everything so well together, thumbs up
ideally you want 100 percent perlite with some compost or potting mix on top as mulch and feed
Your passion really shows and the info is spot on, can’t wait for the next episode!
I’m so excited to have Craig as a guest presenter! It’s great that we now have one who focuses on indoor plants, since that’s the only kind of gardening many people can do nowadays! 🙂
wonderful video, its so inspiring + informative – thank you! really looking forward to next one on light for plants. 🙂
Enjoyed watching this on indoor plants.
We are now adding tropical plants to enhance the indoor oxygen in our house. Thanks for the tips!
Been following Craig for over a year now on instagram. He must be one of the nicest people ever! Always taking his time to answer comments and share his knowledge’s. I´m so happy that he got this opportunity. Much love all the way from Sweden.
Great video! I never thought about cutting down nursery pots! Thanks for the tip!
Hisvoice has such a calming effect as plants
Hi handsome Craig
Thank you for all the useful information on soil mix, I must repot al my house plants with those soil mix but first I need to take a trip to Bunnings to buy the ingredients. Love you Craig and your beautiful plant jungle, absolutely amazing like you. Keep them plant info coming😘
Beautiful Plants….
Love this episode
Great video thank you. Looking forward to the next one!
Omaigodd. Whole plant in this video is "speechless" 👏👏👏
Just amazing! This is great! He is great!
Oh my! I love your video, very informative which what I needed. I’m still confused as to what kind of soil mixture for each plants. Love all your plants and the idea of how to decorate them without breaking the bank. Thank you very much for sharing your ideas and expertise. Looking forward to see more of your videos. God bless you always 🌈😉
I’m so excited for this series! 💜
Great educator 10/10
Beautiful ❤ just out standing
that soil mixing tray is a great idea – thanks Craig!
love it, great info
Your space so nice ang lovely hope i can do that to my house in cavite phils soon thanks for all your vidz its very useful 👍
I say again. Craig have the best plants. Also the artistic way he arranges these is quite an inspiration.
Wow… what a beautiful indoor garden! Looking forward to more info from Craig!!
Thank you for sharing, I have cactus mix, perlite and orchids mix, and mixed all and re pot, however I am having second thoughts about orchids mix, wouldn’t this wood ships make fungus on roots? I am asking you, I have this Christmas cactus and miniature fig
I didn’t buy a plant the other day, thinking I had no place to put it. Then this video pops up and I realize, I have an entire stair case and walk way 😁😁
How about fern?what is the best soil mix for ferns?
Look at his plants absolutely loving life! I’ll hang onto the hope that my calatheas can survive in this unpredictable Melbourne weather.. Subscribed!!
Bloody love your stuff Craig! Can you please adopt me so I can live in this lush paradise of yours?!?
Can’t wait to see more of your content 🙌🏼🌿💗