Cactus Soil

Organic Natural Ingredient Cactus & Succulent Potting Soil

Sorry, we miscalculated our soil amounts making soil unavailable until 2008.

Our plan was to make our all rock cactus soil available in the summer of 2007, but we are sorry to say that we miscalculated the amounts. Almost all of the 2007 soil has been used up potting new plants (some older ones too), which messes up our plans to sell soil.

We are currently putting together another batch of soil, and this batch will ferment over the winter. Then it will go through the organic gardening processes of baking in the sun with more microbial actions in the coming summer. This means soil will become available to sell in the end of the summer of 2008 instead of 2007.

This general use Cactus Soil is an organic living system in an all rock, all natural medium for adult cacti. This cactus growing medium is produced using organic gardening methods of fermention and cooking with sunlight and the natural processes of microbial life.

We process all of the ingredients using organic gardening methods by fermenting them, and then the medium is also cooked by sunlight in a mulching bin. All ingredients are natural this soil is free from any manufactured fertilizers, fungicides or insecticides.

This cactus medium has been developed as a living system, to be highly mold and maggot resistant to help keep cactus plants safe from fungi and soil dwelling fly larvae. The ingredients this medium contains are: Decomposed Granite, Fordite type rock, Biogenic Sedimentary Rock, Perlite, Siliceous rock, Psammite rock, Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus popiliae. All of the composites of this soil have been excavated or harvested from nature, and they are free of any human made chemicals such as fertilizers, insecticides or fungicides.

Even though our soils are free of any human made chemicals such as fertilizers, insecticides or fungicides it is still important to take the same precautions that you would working with any soil. Avoid getting any soils on skin or in eyes, keep away from pets and children, and please do not use other than for intended usage. When potting any plant in any soil it is important to avoid breathing airborne dust, and wash hands after use. Soil of all kinds contain microorganisms, and if you are interested in the best safe measures it is recommendable to use gloves and a dust mask when working with any and every kind of soil. Airborne dust from soil contains silicates, and every plant grower should be aware that prolonged exposure to airborne silicates has been shown to lead to lung cancer. Soils from us contain rocks, minerals and organic formations that occur in nature, but they still need to be handled with care. Our soils are made of ingredients from the earth, so if some is left over it can be recycled back into mother earth such as adding leftovers to a garden or flower bed.