- How do you plan a Planty Garden?
- Everything about vegetables in a Planty Garden
- How many garden boxes do you need?
- The best spot for your Planty Garden
- Buy or make a vegetable garden box
- What is the MM-Mix?
- Place and fill your garden box
- Starting in your garden box
- When's the best time to start your vegetable garden?
- Starting a mini vegetable garden
- Starting a Planty Garden in May
- Starting your vegetable garden in no time
- A super fast start to your vegetable garden
- DIY guide
Almost all information about plants has been included with the plants in our free app. So, you don't need to remember it.
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- How do you plan a Planty Garden?
- Everything about vegetables in a Planty Garden
- How many garden boxes do you need?
- The best spot for your Planty Garden
- Buy or make a vegetable garden box
- What is the MM-Mix?
- Place and fill your garden box
- Starting in your garden box
- When's the best time to start your vegetable garden?
- Starting a mini vegetable garden
- Starting a Planty Garden in May
- Starting your vegetable garden in no time
- A super fast start to your vegetable garden
- DIY guide
The MM-Mix
You don't use potting soil or dirt dug up from the back yard in a Planty Garden. You use a special soil mix made specifically for growing vegetables in garden boxes. All your plants do well in the MM-Mix.
When I talked about the Planty Gardening system, I explained why we work with a special soil mix.
In short: it's an essential part of every Planty Garden's success. It's completely different from using compost or regular soil.
In short: it's an essential part of every Planty Garden's success. It's completely different from using compost or regular soil.
What is the MM-Mix?
The MM-Mix includes a combination of nutritious compost, fibers (like brown peat, cocopeat, and wood fibers), and coarse vermiculite.
This soil mix is easy to work with, gives your plants everything they need, and retains water without getting too soggy.
You can leave this soil mix in your garden boxes for years and never have to replace it - unlike potting soil.
You don't have to bother with weird fertilizers either. When your plants need a nutrient boost, you just sprinkle our all-natural plant food on top. So you're using natural materials, and less of it. How sustainable is that?
This soil mix is easy to work with, gives your plants everything they need, and retains water without getting too soggy.
You can leave this soil mix in your garden boxes for years and never have to replace it - unlike potting soil.
You don't have to bother with weird fertilizers either. When your plants need a nutrient boost, you just sprinkle our all-natural plant food on top. So you're using natural materials, and less of it. How sustainable is that?
Ready-to-use soil mix
Since we first started making the MM-Mix, we've made the recipe better and better. You can order it directly in the shop.
We deliver the bags of MM-Mix directly to your front door. Up to 14 bags we do it in boxes, above that on pallets.
You can also find the MM-Mix at resellers in the Netherlands and Belgium. Many of them are enthusiastic growers like you and are more than happy to share their experiences.
You'll find the link to the map in the header of our Dutch site. (To get there, go first to the footer and change the language in 'Nederlands')
We deliver the bags of MM-Mix directly to your front door. Up to 14 bags we do it in boxes, above that on pallets.
You can also find the MM-Mix at resellers in the Netherlands and Belgium. Many of them are enthusiastic growers like you and are more than happy to share their experiences.
You'll find the link to the map in the header of our Dutch site. (To get there, go first to the footer and change the language in 'Nederlands')
Because we want to have the very best mix, we never stand still.
Together with experts, we constantly test new materials and compositions. If we then discover something that works even better than what we currently have, we implement it as quickly as possible. That's why you can't make our current MM-mix yourself.
Together with experts, we constantly test new materials and compositions. If we then discover something that works even better than what we currently have, we implement it as quickly as possible. That's why you can't make our current MM-mix yourself.
In the shop
We can also deliver the bags of Makkelijke Moestuinmix to your home. Up to 14 bags, we do this in the Netherlands in special thick white foil bags, and in Belgium in boxes. If there are more, we deliver them on pallets.
Eenmalige aanschaf
The Planty Gardening MM-mix will last for years.
Once the mix is in your vegetable garden bed, you never have to replace it and you only need MM-plantfood and an occasional new bag of mix for the rest of your gardening career.
Your results will be amazing and the eternal soil improvement or replacement of potting soil will be a thing of the past.
These are Ria's boxes:
Once the mix is in your vegetable garden bed, you never have to replace it and you only need MM-plantfood and an occasional new bag of mix for the rest of your gardening career.
Your results will be amazing and the eternal soil improvement or replacement of potting soil will be a thing of the past.
These are Ria's boxes:
Notice the sunflower🌻 This is what Ria wrote about it.
"You see the sunflower in the Planty garden box? Thick stem and already pretty tall.
Below you see the difference between that sunflower and the one I planted in my other soil same time. It's stem is thin and it'll take some time before it is as tall as the other one."
"You see the sunflower in the Planty garden box? Thick stem and already pretty tall.
Below you see the difference between that sunflower and the one I planted in my other soil same time. It's stem is thin and it'll take some time before it is as tall as the other one."
Beware: other soil mixes aren't the same
Over the past few years, other companies - like Pokon - have started to sell soil mixes for vegetable gardens. At first glance, the one from Pokon even looks suspiciously like our MM-Mix. But don't fall for it: they're really different.
For example, Pokon's mix contains less vermiculite. A lot less. That's not surprising because vermiculite is by far the most expensive ingredient. They also add a lot of fertilizers and wood chips instead of compost and natural nutrients.
Dagmar used Pokon's soil mix and the MM-Mix and wrote this review:
"The MM-soil mix is highly recommended: much better than regular potting soil or Pokon. Speaking from my own experience, the MM-Mix for vegetable gardening is the best."
For example, Pokon's mix contains less vermiculite. A lot less. That's not surprising because vermiculite is by far the most expensive ingredient. They also add a lot of fertilizers and wood chips instead of compost and natural nutrients.
Dagmar used Pokon's soil mix and the MM-Mix and wrote this review:
"The MM-soil mix is highly recommended: much better than regular potting soil or Pokon. Speaking from my own experience, the MM-Mix for vegetable gardening is the best."
What's next?
Do you have the genuine Makkelijke Moestuin mix? Then let's move on to the next step: placing and filling the vegetable garden box.
Getting set up
- How do you plan a Planty Garden?
- Everything about vegetables in a Planty Garden
- How many garden boxes do you need?
- The best spot for your Planty Garden
- Buy or make a vegetable garden box
- What is the MM-Mix?
- Place and fill your garden box
- Starting in your garden box
- When's the best time to start your vegetable garden?
- Starting a mini vegetable garden
- Starting a Planty Garden in May
- Starting your vegetable garden in no time
- A super fast start to your vegetable garden
- DIY guide